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Comment by m463

6 years ago

"Don't use ZFS. It's that simple. It was always more of a buzzword than anything else, I feel, and the licensing issues just make it a non-starter for me."

When he says that, I think on the $500 million Sun spent on advertising java.

Sun isn't going to sue anyone into oblivion any time soon, but Oracle sure will

  • Sun is all but defunct, I don't think I would characterize it as a subsidiary of Oracle.

  • That's kinda non-sensical IMO. If Oracle, the parent company is trigger happy, there are no guarantees they won't go deeper to protect their children companies IP if they feel they're being infringed.

  • I was thinking more of "the buzzword" bit, and how it got to be such a well known technology.