Oracle can't sue, because CDDL license guarantees the right to use the patented techniques that come with CDDL-ed source code.

That doesn't include ZPL layer. Basically, it's not even a filesystem, in that you can't put any files on it.

CDDL license grants the user the right to use patented techniques. In other words, it guarantees that Oracle can't sue people using ZFS code.

NetApp did sue Sun. Their patents are on their way to being thrown out in the court, FYI.

Actualy, CDDL is years ahead of Btrfs _wishlist_. Looks like Btrfs developers didn't even start thinking about e.g. hybrid pools yet, or proper support for SMB shares (including NFSv4 ACL support), or deduplication.

Looks like some folks try very hard to notice a very simple fact: that in every case involving license incompatibility one of the parties is always GPL. There are GPL-compatible licenses, there are GPL-incompatible licenses, but there are no e.g. Mozilla-incompatible licenses other than GPL. In other words - in the Open Source world license incompatibility problem just doesn't occur when not dealing with GPL. Also, GPL-incompatibility is not the only problem with that license. GPL code cannot be incorporated into software licensed under most GPL-compatible licenses, such as BSD, Apache, Xorg, whatever. But I digress.

Might explain why Panasonic is replacing Linux with FreeBSD in their VIERA TVs (see license agreement at http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/tv/download/2010/down_navt.html).

Yeah, especially the "hobby" part, and the "up to ve level of other unix systems", which is false, as explained above. ;->

According to "man -k L1", Attansic L1 is supported by the age(4) driver.

Linux is a nice 'hobby' OS; however, its hardware support sucks for virtually all modern devices. It's 2010, and Linux still has problems with basic functionality like suspend or graphics acceleration support on many machines. ;-> Of course, you're missing the fact that desktop is not the whole world. Lack of 802.11n support for a few devices doesn't really matter when you're building a core router, NAS, or a http server. (Also, your trolling would be better if it didn't contain claims that are easy to verify as false. In particular, the point about ACLs is bad, because it's easy to check that e.g. Linux doesn't support standard NFSv4 ACLs at all. ;-)