Oracle and ZFS

[GWestphal]

Do you suppose there is a snowball's chance in hell of Oracle GPLing their ZFS source code?

Since ZFS v5p28 when Oracle axed OpenSolaris it forked to closed Solaris (now on ZFS v6p34) and the illumos open sourced projects (v151a), where the majority of ZFS engineers now working on the open sourced projects.

Why can't Oracle just do the right thing and join the open source ZFS project, combining their code with the ZFS engineers drive and talent, they could create the greatest filesystem in history and win a little goodwill at the same time.

 

[GWestphal]

I wonder if Google could buyout ZFS from Oracle...how much could a project like ZFS be worth?

 

[sourceninja]

Oracle is pure unadulterated evil. Anything they do will be to their own ends of screwing you over and taking more of your money for giving you less product.

 

[imagoon]

I could see them using it with Oracle RDBMS. If they do, they will likely never release it.

 

[Nothinman]

Do you suppose there is a snowball's chance in hell of Oracle GPLing their ZFS source code?

Since ZFS v5p28 when Oracle axed OpenSolaris it forked to closed Solaris (now on ZFS v6p34) and the illumos open sourced projects (v151a), where the majority of ZFS engineers now working on the open sourced projects.

Why can't Oracle just do the right thing and join the open source ZFS project, combining their code with the ZFS engineers drive and talent, they could create the greatest filesystem in history and win a little goodwill at the same time.

Nope. They've got a ton of money sunk into BTRFS development and no motivation to jump through the legal hoops to re-license ZFS. If anything, Oracle sees those forks as competitors and has no motivation to help them.