I think that was part of the reason why they did it :) linda On 2/27/14, 1:16 PM, T L wrote: > > 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 > <mailto: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 <http://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 >> <mailto: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 >> <mailto: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 >> <mailto: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 >> <mailto: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 >> <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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