Oracle buys Sun

[ovi freebsd]

Freddie Cash wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:42 AM, ovi freebsd <lists at freebsdonline.com> wrote:
>   
>> I know this is not about FreeBSD but it is about open source and it matters,
>> maybe many of you heard about last news:
>>
>> http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/20/128246       -
>> /"Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) and Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA)
>> announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which
>> Oracle will acquire Sun
>> <http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/018363oracleharligekbtSun...>
>> common stock for $9.50 per share in cash.
>>     
>
> The really interesting bit, at least for me, will be seeing what
> happens with btrfs now that Oracle has full access to ZFS.  Will they
> continue development of btrfs?  Will they port ZFS to Linux?  Will
> they release ZFS as GPL?  Will they borrow ideas from ZFS for btrfs
> and vice versa?  What will this mean for the rest of the OSS world
> that is using ZFS?
>
>   
 From what I know Oracle do not have a good history with open source 
(and not a bad one... yet)... they only took Linux from Red Hat and are 
making money of it... I don't think they will give something back to 
open source community but... we'll see...