It was actually the NetApp lawsuit that caused problems for Apple’s adoption of ZFS. Apple wanted indemnification from Sun because of the lawsuit, Sun’s CEO did not sign the agreement before Oracle’s acquisition of Sun happened and Oracle had no interest in granting that, so the official Apple port was cancelled.
I heard this second hand years later from people who were insiders at Sun.
While third-party ports are great, they lack deep integration that first-party support would have brought (non-kludgy Time Machine which is technically fixed with APFS).
> ZFS on OS X was killed because of Oracle licensing drama.
It was killed because Apple and Sun couldn't agree on a 'support contract'. From Jeff Bonwick, one of the co-creators ZFS:
>> Apple can currently just take the ZFS CDDL code and incorporate it (like they did with DTrace), but it may be that they wanted a "private license" from Sun (with appropriate technical support and indemnification), and the two entities couldn't come to mutually agreeable terms.
> I cannot disclose details, but that is the essence of it.
Sun took DTrace, licensed via CDDL—just like ZFS—and put it into the kernel without issue. Of course a file system is much more central to an operating system, so they wanted much more of a CYA for that.
It’s a cute story that plays into the same old assertions about Steve Jobs, but the conclusion is mostly baseless. There are many other, more credible, less conspiratorial, possible explanations.
It could have played into it though, but I agree the support contract that couldn't be worked out mentioned elsewhere in the thread is more likely.
But I think these things are usually a combination. When a business relationship sours, agreements are suddenly much harder to work out. The negotiators are still people and they have feelings that will affect their decisionmaking.
The downside to LIMs is that they have ann unexpected derailment/failure mode (1), as manifested by the 2023 SRT derailment.
Briefly, the magnetic repulsion/attraction forces of an accelerating train caused a section of the reaction rail to catch on the train, which catapulted a train car.
I’ll also mention used to live near the SRT. They were still great and quirky around the 10 year mark. However, the Mark Is didn’t age well. They just got louder and louder.
They also became more and more susceptible to severe weather, to the point they were run in manual mode (versus ATO) with every snow storm.
I don't think anyone here advocates for "just ship it" when you're talking about breaking updates to a system used by a significant chunk of the world's population.
Not all of his translations were nowhere near the original. For example, his translation of Guy Ritchie's Snatch was excellent (in my opinion of course) and is still quoted to this day. I'd say it's the only one that absolutely nails it and then some.
On the other hand, his Lord of The Rings was an "alternative" dub as you described. Didn't watch that one though.
Seems about right.
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