> -----Original Message----- > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Michael Schuster > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 9:42 AM > To: Edward Ned Harvey > Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] A few questions > > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 15:34, Edward Ned Harvey > <opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > >> From: Deano [mailto:de...@rattie.demon.co.uk] > >> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 9:16 AM > >> > >> So honestly do we want to innovate ZFS (I do) or do we just want to > follow > >> Oracle? > > > > Well, you can't follow Oracle. Unless you wait till they release something, > > reverse engineer it, and attempt to reimplement it. > > that's not my understanding - while we will have to wait, oracle is > supposed to release *some* source code afterwards to satisfy some > claim or other. I agree, some would argue that that should have > already happened with S11 express... I don't know it has, but that's > not *the* release of S11, is it? And once the code is released, even > if after the fact, it's not reverse-engineering anymore, is it?
Not exactly. Oracle hasn't publicly committed to anything like that. There were several news articles last year referencing a leaked internal memo that I believe was more of a proposal than a plan. Even if Oracle did 'commit' to releasing code, they could easily just decide not to. -Will _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
