Depends on your database. I know I have been able to bring SQL server down with a query.

Try this...

begin transaction

update rows set a=b where x=y

commit transaction.

On your workstation this could run really fast because you only have ten records. On the production database server this could crush the server if you had a few million records effected.

I think that what will end up happening is this:

Modifications I need to make to already BSD licensed code will remain BSD licensed. New pieces of code I write to get it working that are not taken from Sun will be BSD licensed. Everything else will be porting work and will be CDDL.

Quoting his FAQ: "So this email is an appeal to the FreeBSD user community, to try to raise money for three to six months of my time to make our filesystem and disk-I/O subsystem work properly on both single-user and multi-processor systems."

I believe that if he puts up a small work plan with the following items he will convince more funding from corporations such as Yahoo!, Apple, etc.

More details on the work he wants to do.

A description of the benefits from the output and who will benefit most.

Milestones and a rough timeline.

A priorities list on the work.
Just my opinion...