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by ethbr1 410 days ago
The argument advanced in the piece isn't without merit -- that ripping out DTrace, if subsequent legal developments demanded it, would be a heck of a lot easier than removing a filesystem that would by then contain massive amounts of customer data.

And given what a litigious jackass Larry Ellison / Oracle is, I can't fault Apple for being nervous.
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cryptonector 410 days ago
No, it was that Apple wanted to be indemnified in the event that Sun/Oracle lost the NetApp lawsuit.
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mixmastamyk 410 days ago
Ironic since the post above tells the story as LE saying no to Jobs.
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wkat4242 410 days ago
There's always two sides to one story. And Jobs was not the kind of person to take no for an answer. I've known other narcissists and they've always seen friends as more of a resource than someone to care about.

I think the truth is somewhere in the middle.

Another rumour was that Schwartz spilling the beans pissed Jobs off, which I wouldn't really put past him. Though I don't think it would have been enough to kill this.

I think all these little things added up and the end result was just "better not then".

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