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iamtedd on Oct 14, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Oracle lays off more than 200 California-based wor...

ZFS is mostly developed by the OpenZFS community, not Oracle. OpenZFS is creating all the new developments, including ZFS on Linux, while Oracle is over in the corner with their little fork, pretending it doesn't exist.

To put it more succinctly: Oracle ZFS is OpenOffice. OpenZFS is LibreOffice.

rhinoceraptor on Oct 14, 2022 [–]

Yes, what I mean is Oracle could have relicensed it so that the Linux ZFS port could actually be in the kernel source tree.

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