> yeah, you gotta wonder about that. > No, really, you don't. > Those that tell you it is about "Freedom" are mostly full of shit. > It's about "it didn't cost me anything" to most of them.
We've got an entire operating system which is completely free as a base; besides that, a shrinking set of GPL2 components are used to help us build. Maybe in the future that will change. A variety of choices are slowly in play. And now, because of "ZFS and dtrace", we should throw that entire Bostic-started effort out the window. Screw freedom, I need ZFS and dtrace. Don't be fooled. This request does not come from people who love ZFS or dtrace. It comes from people who apparently love btoh ZFS _and_ dtrace (otherwise, once in a while we'd get a mail from someone who only mentions ZFS, right?). Because, as you all know, everyone needs both "ZFS and dtrace", or they are doomed and it is a certainly that Satan and Bill will consume their souls for eternity. Yes, I need dtrace. Today tomorrow and forever, or I will go to hell. dtrace or death. Yes, some of you will think I am silly, but if you do, please go check some mail archives and you will see that apparently most ZFS people don't care about ZFS, unless they post to *BSD mailing lists, and then suddenly pushing dtrace becomes a real pressure point. I don't know where these people come from but they seem like agents of Stallman or Company X or Company Y, at the very least some kind of "divide and conquer" or "divide or conquer" effort is in play. Don't even bother to respond to such people, unless your mail explains to others what is going on. The real key phrase to watch for here is that there are people who always mix "ZFS and dtrace" together. Everytime they are mixed together, the person posting it is of the type that has zero use for dtrace. They've been fooled by someone to equate those two as "equal value". Who are these "ZFS and dtrace" people? Are they HFT programmers? I really don't know. Do they help the project? I can assure you that they do not. I bet they couldn't use dtrace to their advantage of their life depended on it. Yet "ZFS and dtrace" so often mentioned together... Don't be fooled. In fact, I urge our users to investigate every person who has mentioned "ZFS and dtrace" together in the past. Their agenda is not the one that you or I believe in. Their agenda is division.
