Linked by Rahul on Mon 13th Oct 2008 21:19 UTC
Linux Linux Foundation is organizing a end user collaboration summit this week. A major topic will be a presentation on the new upcoming filesystems - Ext4 and Btrfs. Ted Tso, who is a Linux kernel filesystem developer on a sabbatical from IBM working for Linux Foundation for a year, has talked about the two-pronged approach for the Linux kernel, taking a incremental approach with Ext4 while simultaneously working on the next generation filesystem called btrfs. Read more for details.
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RE[4]: ZFS?
by Arun on Tue 14th Oct 2008 22:22 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: ZFS?"
Arun
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"If Sun had used GPL, other OSes like MacOS, *BSD and QNX couldn't have ported ZFS or other Solaris tech.Sun chose a more open license to spread the tech around.

So what's the problem with what they did with Java and dual licensing then? Sorry, but that doesn't really wash.
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Why doesn't the Linux community dual license if it needs Solaris tech?

"Too bad Linux users are so selfish.

No, they just want to keep code flowing into their project rather than out of it so they can keep the code open ;-).
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How did you come to that illogical conclusion? Real data shows Solaris IP is flowing very well to other projects. The license is far more open than the GPL.

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