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by InTheArena 1178 days ago
Thats what the engineers say.

What the lawyers say is different.

What the business folks who control the license say was very different. FUD and an unforeseen lawsuit hanging over your head at some random point in the future when Sun or Oracle needs a revenue lift at an end of a quarter is a recipe for ulcers.
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flomo 1178 days ago
Not unforeseen nor FUD. There was a very real patent lawsuit between NetApp and Sun/Oracle related to ZFS.

https://www.theregister.com/2010/09/09/oracle_netapp_zfs_dis...

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throw0101b 1178 days ago
> Thats what the engineers say.

Bonwick was the Sun Storage CTO and after the acquisition a vice president at Oracle.

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