[cjbprime]

Oracle is not the "chief contributors" of Btrfs. If anyone is, it's Facebook. Chris Mason (the btrfs creator) worked for Oracle. He left in 2012.

> This move by Red Hat must be seen as a provocation of Oracle

I doubt it.

[chasil]

A thousand pardons - I am mistaking "initially designed" for current control.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs

"... initially designed at Oracle Corporation for use in Linux."