Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:42:28 +0300 From: ovi freebsd <lists@freebsdonline.com> To: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Oracle buys Sun Message-ID: <49ED9504.2070803@freebsdonline.com> In-Reply-To: <b269bc570904201003y1739bd16v7539770335c898c@mail.gmail.com> References: <49EC97DA.5020600@freebsdonline.com> <b269bc570904201003y1739bd16v7539770335c898c@mail.gmail.com>
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Freddie Cash wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:42 AM, ovi freebsd <lists@freebsdonline.com> wrote: > >> I know this is not about FreeBSD but it is about open source and it matters, >> maybe many of you heard about last news: >> >> http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/20/128246 - >> /"Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) and Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) >> announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which >> Oracle will acquire Sun >> <http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/018363oracleharligekbtSun...>; >> common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. >> > > The really interesting bit, at least for me, will be seeing what > happens with btrfs now that Oracle has full access to ZFS. Will they > continue development of btrfs? Will they port ZFS to Linux? Will > they release ZFS as GPL? Will they borrow ideas from ZFS for btrfs > and vice versa? What will this mean for the rest of the OSS world > that is using ZFS? > > From what I know Oracle do not have a good history with open source (and not a bad one... yet)... they only took Linux from Red Hat and are making money of it... I don't think they will give something back to open source community but... we'll see...
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