ZFS licensing question

pluknet pluknet at gmail.com
Thu Oct 29 11:39:13 UTC 2009


2009/10/28 James R. Van Artsdalen <james-freebsd-fs2 at jrv.org>:
> There are lies, damn lies, and Corporate Press Releases.
>
> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> The quality of the protection hinges on conditions:
>>
>>       1. Sun has to exist and stand by its word.
>>
>>       2. Sun must have enough money to do so (see 1.)
>
> phk is exactly right; in my experience it has always been easier to get
> a billion dollar's worth of guarantees from a vendor than to get a
> million dollar's worth.
>
> Matt Simerson wrote:
>> Apple needs a next generation file system, and they need it last year.
>
> No they don't, not unless there was something in last quarter's results
> I missed.

At least Apple is looking for a file system engineer.
http://jobs.apple.com/index.ajs?method=mExternal.showJob&RID=42559


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