Sun CEO Says NetApp Lied in Fear of Open Source

Lucas123 writes "In reaction to NetApp's patent infringement lawsuit against Sun, CEO Jonathan Schwartz today said in his blog that NetApp basically lied in its legal filing when it said Sun asked them for licensing fees for use of their ZFS file system technology. In a separate statement, Sun said NetApp's lawsuit is about fear over open-source ZFS technology as a competitive threat. 'The rise of the open-source community cannot be stifled by proprietary vendors. I guess not everyone's learned that lesson'."

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Of course Schwartz would say that.

[morgan_greywolf]

Sun's biggest competitor to Solaris when it was a closed-source product was Linux. Sun feared free software. For a while, they played lip service to supporting it, but now that they've come around to GPLing Java, open sourcing Solaris 10, well, they've shown that they are more serious about free/open source software than ever. Of course, Sun continues to sell closed-source, proprietary software, but that's another story.

And we all accuse other people of acting the way we do (or used to).

But anyway, isn't ZFS under a license that can't be used in the Linux kernel, anyway? So it's incompatible with the GPL, not really 'free software'?