From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 7 05:39:00 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 486521065672 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 2010 05:39:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from cpoproxy1-pub.bluehost.com (cpoproxy1-pub.bluehost.com [69.89.21.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C8098FC18 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 2010 05:38:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 1302 invoked by uid 0); 7 Nov 2010 05:38:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by cpoproxy1.bluehost.com with SMTP; 7 Nov 2010 05:38:59 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=Xu1p/KVwXCjxE09zolBCbO0RMemfgmgZSa35m1u9ZN/DY7tqwLXIfatGQuJbowfEi1HjuF81qDTJa+AgLQ0EcHDU0kkmx/ttb3IkZX5+z7MAGXToBwMwYByZSDubuJDN; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PExxy-0000t4-7J for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 06 Nov 2010 23:38:59 -0600 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 06 Nov 2010 23:33:02 -0600 Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 23:33:02 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20101107053302.GD14413@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4CD45A11.7060002@stillbilde.net> <20101105213433.GC8648@guilt.hydra> <20101106203634.GD13095@guilt.hydra> <20101106225708.GD67566@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ZJcv+A0YCCLh2VIg" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: ZFS License and Future X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 05:39:00 -0000 --ZJcv+A0YCCLh2VIg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 07:09:57PM -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Chip Camden = wrote: > > > > The one in that list that worries me the most is VirtualBox -- that's a > > truly useful solution that isn't easily replaced. But I read somewhere > > that there was a movement gaining steam to break off from Oracle. > > > I agree, vBox is vital .... OOo3 has movement as well. See the following > links >=20 > http://www.documentfoundation.org/ > http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/ > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument_Foundation Yes, there are already forks underway -- such as LibreOffice (OO.o fork), MariaDB (MySQL fork), and so on. We'll see whether they end up subject to expensive lawsuits as a result. I haven't read your links yet, but I'll probably get to it tomorrow. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --ZJcv+A0YCCLh2VIg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkzWOg4ACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKXaFgCgjCuGw6BoCtVSaI6D8fmzWXv0 KVYAoJECosMxenudD7RVyyurFw5tGyNq =lZ1v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZJcv+A0YCCLh2VIg--