Comment Re:ZFS v31+ at last? (Score 1) 224
> I don't see that Oracle has anything to lose here by staying open with that component, filesystems benefit a lot from widespread use and lots of testing, but, well, it is Oracle.
I believe netapp still believes, somehow, that zfs is wafl, and that they should be paid damages for distribution of their IP.
I know that Daniel Philips has claimed at conferences way back when that he has seen prior art on WAFLs patents, but he still stopped working on Tux2 instead of fighting it. I don't know if Larry and the big O have a patent portfolio that can shut up netapp.