Oracle released ZFS under a BSD compatible license. Anyone is allowed to do whatever to the opensource code. Going forward, Oracle has not opened an code after v28, which is the last OpenSource version to be compatible with Oracle ZFS.
We would countries even want tariffs on importing vast amounts of rare Earth minerals below market value? Let China flood the market. At some point in the future, all of us other countries will have huge stock-piles of China minerals in our land-fills.
Not everyone is like that. I remember making $600/month when rent alone was $400, then I had to feed me and my wife. I guess I could have dropped out of college to take up a full-time job, but then I'd have to start paying $400/month in paying back my college debt. If I didn't finish my college degree in time, I would have had to re-take most of my classes.
I also know a lot of people who willingly live paycheck-to-paycheck and blow hundreds at the bar on pay-day, then complain about money, but not everyone is like that.
Buy a $1500 car and pay another $5k over it's 5 years of life, trying to keep it running. Buy a $5k car and save the $1500. There are limits on how cheap you can get before it costs you more in the long run.
The industry average for failed SSDs is about 1.5% and failed mechanical HDs is about 5%. For normal home-user usage patterns, SSDs are a few factors more reliable than mechanical. At least one tech-site did a write-cycle test and was able to get 700GB of data written to a 250GB Samsung 840 before it had an error and over 800TB before it finally died.
Most home users won't be writing nearly that much data to a 256GB drive before the purchase a new computer. New techniques will be solving the solve write-cycle issue soon enough. Worry about it right now, but this problem is already solved, it just hasn't made it to mass-production yet.
Intel makes a decent chunk of Net profit, but they reinvest 50% of their earnings back into R&D, then another huge portion back into making new fabs. They have a lot of value in assets and move around huge amounts of money, but nearly all of their value is tied up in investments and assets and not cash.
Not sure. Was watching some Discovery channel thing and they said that some key chemical reactions that are required for smell are impossible based on standard chemistry. These reactions are borderlining able to occur, but I guess chemistry is a binary can or can't, but once you include quantum fluctuations and chance, these reactions can occur.
The exa-flood is upon us! We need 100gb, and it's too expensive!
Few months later... 400gb links!
We can't sustain that growth!
Few months later.... 800gb over a single fiber!
We can't sustain that growth!
Few months later.... you can now purchase 8tb/s over a single fiber and we have a working version running from Stockholm to Frankfurt with no repeaters using standard fiber.........
Yes, GPL works if you don't want to share anything, but if you want to share something but not everything, it won't work. GPL is an all-or-nothing license.
"Perfect is the enemy of good"
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive...."
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions" - Not to mean that GPL is bad, just that it has many unforeseen consequences to it's practicality.
$500m of whom's money? I know there are lots of grants out there. I remember my ISP saying similar things. "We spent over $1bil upgrading our state-of-the-art fiber network in your state." But they don't tell you about most of the money coming from the Government.
Laws of physics are violated all of the time, you just don't see it directly happening at the macroscopic level. Even our sense of smell requires the laws to be broken, yet we smell all of the time. Fun stuff.
"Laws" of nature only happen on average. Given an infinite amount of time, they will always win. The real question, is how does this newly added energy, get removed?
"Do what you want as long as it doesn't prevent others to do the same"
Not quite. BSD also doesn't allow other to prevent you from doing the same. GPL prevents you from, in their words, "stealing" code, and making your own changes and not sharing YOUR changes. They force you to share your changes, for the good of the user of course.
Most people love sharing, but being forced to share is a whole other issue. I don't mind giving money to charity, but if those charities walked into my house and took a dollar from my pocket, that's a bit different. Not a great analogy, but it conveys my "feelings".
If you don't like it, you don't have to use it, right? Well, the vocal group in the GPL community are like zealots and constantly spread FUD about BSD and how people can steal your code! omg! my code is no longer in version control! Someone must have stole it! The only thing wrong with GPL is some of their evangelists and the fanaticism of the ideology.
Ohh, thanks, so I can put my code under any license I want, but my code is worthless with out the other code.
I'm not trying to make an argument about entitlement, just that it's a moot argument that reads like "If you don't like your food, you're free to not eat it and die".
Most people will keep eating the food because it's better than not eating, but at some point, they might get... fed up... lawlawlawlawl. Maybe they like the food, no problems. Claiming GPL is free is like claiming Verizon actually sells unlimited FIOS. For all intents and purposes, it's free, but there are cases where it blows up in your face.
No developers, no software, except in the case where you define the developer as the user, but then GPL says it does not care about the freedom of the developer.. I'm so confused.
BSD gets imported into Linux quite often. The only requirements for BSD 2 clause are these
Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
Since GPL already requires the source distributed and the BSD clause just requires the copyright notice, it plays nicely.
Users never study/modify code, only developers do and GPL claims to not care about them, only users. I stand behind GPL's ideology, but it is not as practical as BSD in the real world. I do hope for the day when we won't need BSD anymore and GPL will work for all cases, but I don't see that day happening until Software Patents and DRM is gone.
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Let us know how that goes on a multi petabyte array where you have mission critical data and all kinds of departments using it.
Oracle released ZFS under a BSD compatible license. Anyone is allowed to do whatever to the opensource code. Going forward, Oracle has not opened an code after v28, which is the last OpenSource version to be compatible with Oracle ZFS.
Re-balance vdevs, ftw! But yeah.. shrinking, defrag, blah blah blah.
The history of all Kernel changes are stored publicly in GIT and can be validated using checksums. But I still enjoy the humor :p
New scales will need GPS build in so they can use the new gravity map to determine how many grams something is.
In other news, purchasing drugs in Peru and selling at the North Pole for profit! Someone has to keep those elves peppy.
We would countries even want tariffs on importing vast amounts of rare Earth minerals below market value? Let China flood the market. At some point in the future, all of us other countries will have huge stock-piles of China minerals in our land-fills.
Not everyone is like that. I remember making $600/month when rent alone was $400, then I had to feed me and my wife. I guess I could have dropped out of college to take up a full-time job, but then I'd have to start paying $400/month in paying back my college debt. If I didn't finish my college degree in time, I would have had to re-take most of my classes.
I also know a lot of people who willingly live paycheck-to-paycheck and blow hundreds at the bar on pay-day, then complain about money, but not everyone is like that.
Buy a $1500 car and pay another $5k over it's 5 years of life, trying to keep it running. Buy a $5k car and save the $1500. There are limits on how cheap you can get before it costs you more in the long run.
The industry average for failed SSDs is about 1.5% and failed mechanical HDs is about 5%. For normal home-user usage patterns, SSDs are a few factors more reliable than mechanical. At least one tech-site did a write-cycle test and was able to get 700GB of data written to a 250GB Samsung 840 before it had an error and over 800TB before it finally died.
Most home users won't be writing nearly that much data to a 256GB drive before the purchase a new computer. New techniques will be solving the solve write-cycle issue soon enough. Worry about it right now, but this problem is already solved, it just hasn't made it to mass-production yet.
Intel makes a decent chunk of Net profit, but they reinvest 50% of their earnings back into R&D, then another huge portion back into making new fabs. They have a lot of value in assets and move around huge amounts of money, but nearly all of their value is tied up in investments and assets and not cash.
By "people", you mean "Mac users", not Unix users. Who cares about the fluff. Apple contributes back most of the important stuff.
Not sure. Was watching some Discovery channel thing and they said that some key chemical reactions that are required for smell are impossible based on standard chemistry. These reactions are borderlining able to occur, but I guess chemistry is a binary can or can't, but once you include quantum fluctuations and chance, these reactions can occur.
The exa-flood is upon us! We need 100gb, and it's too expensive!
Few months later... 400gb links! We can't sustain that growth!
Few months later.... 800gb over a single fiber!
We can't sustain that growth!
Few months later.... you can now purchase 8tb/s over a single fiber and we have a working version running from Stockholm to Frankfurt with no repeaters using standard fiber.........
I give up
Yes, GPL works if you don't want to share anything, but if you want to share something but not everything, it won't work. GPL is an all-or-nothing license.
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"Perfect is the enemy of good"
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive.
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions" - Not to mean that GPL is bad, just that it has many unforeseen consequences to it's practicality.
$500m of whom's money? I know there are lots of grants out there. I remember my ISP saying similar things. "We spent over $1bil upgrading our state-of-the-art fiber network in your state." But they don't tell you about most of the money coming from the Government.
If it's not public, you can't fight it.
Laws of physics are violated all of the time, you just don't see it directly happening at the macroscopic level. Even our sense of smell requires the laws to be broken, yet we smell all of the time. Fun stuff.
"Laws" of nature only happen on average. Given an infinite amount of time, they will always win. The real question, is how does this newly added energy, get removed?
And, here's a weird idea: if you want the code, you can ask for permission. You know, ASK.
Yes, dig through GIT and track down the 20,000 people who may have touched those 5 lines of code and get written permission. Sounds great!
"Do what you want as long as it doesn't prevent others to do the same"
Not quite. BSD also doesn't allow other to prevent you from doing the same. GPL prevents you from, in their words, "stealing" code, and making your own changes and not sharing YOUR changes. They force you to share your changes, for the good of the user of course.
Most people love sharing, but being forced to share is a whole other issue. I don't mind giving money to charity, but if those charities walked into my house and took a dollar from my pocket, that's a bit different. Not a great analogy, but it conveys my "feelings".
If you don't like it, you don't have to use it, right? Well, the vocal group in the GPL community are like zealots and constantly spread FUD about BSD and how people can steal your code! omg! my code is no longer in version control! Someone must have stole it! The only thing wrong with GPL is some of their evangelists and the fanaticism of the ideology.
I get this whole, holier than thou, kind of vibe.
Ohh, thanks, so I can put my code under any license I want, but my code is worthless with out the other code.
I'm not trying to make an argument about entitlement, just that it's a moot argument that reads like "If you don't like your food, you're free to not eat it and die".
Most people will keep eating the food because it's better than not eating, but at some point, they might get... fed up... lawlawlawlawl. Maybe they like the food, no problems. Claiming GPL is free is like claiming Verizon actually sells unlimited FIOS. For all intents and purposes, it's free, but there are cases where it blows up in your face.
No developers, no software, except in the case where you define the developer as the user, but then GPL says it does not care about the freedom of the developer.. I'm so confused.
BSD gets imported into Linux quite often. The only requirements for BSD 2 clause are these
Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
Since GPL already requires the source distributed and the BSD clause just requires the copyright notice, it plays nicely.
Because you can make changes to GPL'd code and distribute the binary without the code you used to compile it with?
Kind of like saying the drunk driver didn't kill that person, excessive g-forces did. Just a technicality with no practical merit.
Users never study/modify code, only developers do and GPL claims to not care about them, only users. I stand behind GPL's ideology, but it is not as practical as BSD in the real world. I do hope for the day when we won't need BSD anymore and GPL will work for all cases, but I don't see that day happening until Software Patents and DRM is gone.