From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 7 03:12:08 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11D171065679 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 2010 03:12:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from merlyn@stonehenge.com) Received: from red.stonehenge.com (red.stonehenge.com [IPv6:2607:f2f8:3080::]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9ACB8FC08 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 2010 03:12:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by red.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C316B4490; Sat, 6 Nov 2010 20:12:07 -0700 (PDT) From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4CD45A11.7060002@stillbilde.net> <20101105213433.GC8648@guilt.hydra> <20101106203634.GD13095@guilt.hydra> <20101106225708.GD67566@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.17.15.4; tzolkin = 8 Kan; haab = 17 Zac Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 20:12:07 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20101106225708.GD67566@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> (Chip Camden's message of "Sat, 6 Nov 2010 15:57:08 -0700") Message-ID: <86lj55g73s.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: ZFS License and Future X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 03:12:08 -0000 >>>>> "Chip" == Chip Camden writes: Chip> The one in that list that worries me the most is VirtualBox -- that's a Chip> truly useful solution that isn't easily replaced. But I read somewhere Chip> that there was a movement gaining steam to break off from Oracle. When I interviewed the VirtualBox guys for FLOSS Weekly (http://twit.tv/floss130), they seemed pretty confident that Oracle was going to keep fairly "hands off", in a way that was starkly contrasted with some of the other former-Sun project leaders I've spoken to. (Ugh, too early to fix the tortured english... I hope you get the point.) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion