Oracle buys Sun

[directhex]

... for $7.4 billion

http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/index.jsp

[lodore]

Interesting.
wonder if ZFS will be put under GPL?
but then again if they did that what would they do with Btrfs?

[directhex]

Interesting.
wonder if ZFS will be put under GPL?
but then again if they did that what would they do with Btrfs?

I expect the opposite. Oracle are not an Open company. I anticipate them killing off Free versions of things, and un-GPLing future versions of things under GPL

[Funkstar]

and un-GPLing future versions of things under GPL

You can do that?

So is this a good or bad thing do you think Directhex?

I guess for some it will mean an easy single source for their DB apps now.

[directhex]

You can do that?

Let's say you own the source code to Funkstar Deluxe. Versions 1.0 -> 5.0 are closed source, under a Windowsy EULA. Version 6.0 is released under a EULA - but you also publish most of the source code under a Free license as Funkstar Open Edition. You can go closed-only again for Funkstar Deluxe 7.0. You can't revoke the freedoms you assigned to 6.0 Open Edition, but it may well end up on en evolutionary dead-end path. Equally, of course, it could take over & become bigger than the original. You never know.

Note: names have been changed to protect the innocent

[Funkstar]

Makes sense, just never thought of it really.

Note: names have been changed to protect the innocent

Inocent. I like that