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RE[3]: Remember
by Laurence on Wed 18th Mar 2009 21:45 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Remember"
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Can you explain, where you have such information from?

Admittedly it's mostly hear-say, but I've read a few sources that have said the same thing as this:
"given that Sun has reportedly filed a huge number of patents covering ZFS and has refused to make them available for anything other than Solaris --- and there are senior Sun programmers who have on record stated that one of the reasons why Sun picked the CDDL was precisely because it was incompatible with GPL and Sun fears Linux ---- I wouldn't bet on Sun being willing to making a patent license available to a hypothetical alternate implementation of the ZFS format for Linux."

There's logic to the argument and, if it was a deliberate move, it certainly worked on me as I've recently switched one of my servers over from Linux to Nexenta.

Edited 2009-03-18 21:54 UTC

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