Erik Trimble wrote:

> it does look like they'll win, I would bet huge chunks of money that
> Oracle cross-licenses the patents or pays for a license, rather than
> kill ZFS (it simply makes too much money for Oracle to abandon).

Out of sheer curiosity - and I'm not disagreeing with you, just wondering - how 
does ZFS make money for Oracle when they don't charge for it?  Do you think 
it's such an important feature that it's a big factor in customers picking 
Solaris over other platforms?
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