Re: trademark on ZFS Just as OpenOffice and "Office" (TM owned by Microsoft) can coexist (from a trademark law perspective, at least) it is likely that ZFS and OpenZFS can. Thomas On Feb 27, 2014 1:06 PM, "Linda Kateley" <lkateley at kateley.com> wrote: > I really hate to plug my business on a list, but this is what i do. I > teach classes on zfs. If anyone is interested I thought I would put it out > there... > > kateleyco.com > > Most of the work I do is for a bunch of smallish zfs startups. I am > actually creating freenas content right now. > > The reason I was hesitant on saying something definitive is I hadn't > checked the news yet today. There can always be news. In april of last year > Oracle reapplied for trademark on the word zfs. I have been waiting for > them to do something with that :) > > linda > > > On 2/27/14, 12:48 PM, T L wrote: > > Sorry that I was so terse this morning. > > OpenZFS, per se, is newer than the Oracle acquisition of Sun. > > There are many ZFS trees, these days. (And, in this era of distributed > source control, that's not a big deal anyway. ) > > Each of FreeBSD, ZFS on Linux, et al, have their own trees. OpenZFS isn't > code -- its an umbrella organization to promote common development across > the open source implementations of ZFS. > > There have been two recent Ars Technica articles on ZFS and btrfs that are > well worth reading if you're interested in this space. (Even the comments > are valuable, believe it or not!) > > Thomas > On Feb 27, 2014 9:46 AM, "Seth Miller" <sethmiller.sm at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thomas, >> >> You are correct. OpenZFS is open source among ports. ZFS is not. >> >> It may be just a matter of semantics. When Oracle acquired Sun, it >> locked down Solaris and everything that belongs to it, including ZFS. >> OpenZFS was developed as part of OpenSolaris which is now discontinued. >> >> What I should have said is Solaris ZFS is no longer open source which is >> irrelevant in this case so I stand corrected. >> >> Seth >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 7:31 AM, T L <tlunde at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Seth - >>> >>> You are mistaken. See OpenZFS. >>> >>> They may be able to develop a proprietary fork, but you can't put the >>> genie back in a bottle. >>> >>> Thomas >>> On Feb 27, 2014 12:35 AM, "Seth Miller" <sethmiller.sm at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Nice job Kateley. >>>> >>>> Keep in mind that ZFS is no longer open source since Oracle locked it >>>> down. >>>> >>>> Seth >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:51 PM, B-o-B De Mars <mr.chew.baka at gmail.com>wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 2/10/2014 2:31 PM, Linda Kateley wrote:: >>>>> >>>>> So I am starting to create some small videos. I just posted one that >>>>>> is >>>>>> 10 minutes to Time Machine. If anyone has a second(or 10 minutes), >>>>>> maybe >>>>>> take a peak? Give me only positive feedback :) my ego is way too >>>>>> fragile >>>>>> for negative (again Smiley face). >>>>>> >>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2pyYeANGKc >>>>>> >>>>>> The content is probably way to simple for this crowd, but i thought i >>>>>> would throw it out here.. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Very Nice video Linda! >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesotatclug-list at mn-linux.orghttp://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140227/6a54d6d2/attachment.html>