Erik N Johnson wrote:
Several years ago there was a dispute over the direction that the
development of the XFree86 project should take. The plan was to make
substantial changes to the licensing and distribution of the software.
However, the bulk of the developers found that the proposed changes
were neither appropriate nor useful. Thgus they forked the project
and X.org was born. Since then the team has continued to make regular
releases of the project and nowadays almost all the major Linux
distributions use X.org as their default X11 implementation. The
reason this is possible is open source.
There is no reason to believe that Mr. Reiser's conviction (which was
WAY back in April) spells the demise of ReiserFS. Indeed, even the
cessation of development activities by Namesys is not the end of the
road. The beauty of the open source development model is that anybody
with an interest in file systems can download the code (still
available at kernel.org) and continue his work. In the meantime the
code for ReiserFS, Reiser4 and reiserfsprogs continues to be available
and is no less stable than it was before Hans agreed to reveal the
location of his late wife's remains.
I would therefor encourage people to choose file systems based on
their relative merits, rather than concerns over continued
development. It may be that bug reports go unheeded for a while. But
remember, although there may be nobody around to sue if things go
wrong, at least you aren't depending on the continued profitability of
some company to keep your filesystem available! That's the best reason
in the world to go open source!
I generally agree with those sentiments, but I would also consider
vendor support now and in the future.
Sincerely,
Erik Johnson
Northern Illinois University
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Marcy Cortes
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hans Reiser leads police to body:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/07/BAN011LDR8.D
TL
Those still running reiserfs on their linux server may want to format
and try ext3...
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John
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