[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[David Goodwin]

In article <v1jr12$v90k$3 at dont-email.me>, devzero at nospam.com says...
> 
> On 5/9/24 22:56, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> > On Tue, 7 May 2024 13:45:25 +0100, chrisq wrote:
> > 
> >> Yes, ZFS here since the very early versions of Solaris 10. Absolutely
> >> rock solid and has never lost any data here, nor had a situation that
> >> was not recoverable. Why use anything else ?.
> > 
> > And yet, Oracle won?t offer it, preferring to give their customers btrfs
> > instead.
> 
> Still very much in Solaris, but suspect conflicting licensing issues,
> Linux and ZFS, being the main reason it's not offered. It's been in
> FreeBSD for years, but still not in mainstream Linux afaik, unless
> they are now using OpenZFS...
> 
> Chris

Oracle would have to relicense their ZFS code, and then all the OpenZFS 
contributors would have to relicense their contributions for ZFS to be 
included in the Linux kernel.

I guess too much work for the people at Oracle to be bothered with given 
doing it wouldn't actually make them any additional money. And perhaps 
they're still trying to gain Solaris customers for which ZFS is a 
selling point, though to me it more looks like Solaris is on life 
support.