"To some degree Btrfs does what ZFS does. Some uni ran ZFS as a
module in Linux so using it with Linux can be done. The biggest
thing Sun did with ZFS is they were good with PR and marketing.
There are other projects that wanted to do what ZFS does on Linux.
Sun started finding the NetApp patents as the NetApp patents kept
people from doing things they wanted to do. I hope ZFS clears the
patents issue.
"A few years ago you were forced to change revision control
systems for Linux development and Git was born. Now Git has a
groundswell of support, just like Linux. How is the Git project
going?
"I want all my code to be open source, but I will use the best
tool for the job and BitKeeper was the best tool and at the time
the alternatives sucked so bad they were shit. When the
alternatives are so bad I will take proprietary code. Proprietary
was a downside, but what choice did I have? Hey, I usually do my
presentation slides in PowerPoint."
