[ale] It's official - Oracle has assimilated Sun

[Jim Kinney]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:47 PM, David W. Millians <millia at panix.com> wrote:

> I'd rather they be forced to open other things Sun related. I have to
> admit I was excited by the possibility of GPL'd ZFS. That'd be a real
> thorn in Microsoft's side.

Given the love Ellison has for Gates, putting the ZFS under GPL v3
could be enough of a reason for the buyout. Plus they get some nice
other stuff to go along with the giant, multi-prong fork to jab Bill
in the @$$ with :-)


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