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yjftsjthsd-h on Oct 1, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Fedora Project Remains Community Driven

Oh, yeah, that whole thing is maddening. Oracle is a major user of Linux; they could have just made the ZFS code properly, formally GPLv2 compatible and merged it in and overnight have an amazing storage system in OEL. Instead, they just... sat on it. Ugh.

ungamedplayer on Oct 1, 2022 [–]

I imagine they sat on it, so that if they needed to strongarm someone using it.. they could. Red Hat would be their immediate target to bend over.

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