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!
>>
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