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Apple abandoned ZFS when Steve Jobs was still alive. Larry Ellison has frequently described Steve Jobs as one of his best friends whom he frequently went on wal
by cowsandmilk 11y ago
Apple abandoned ZFS when Steve Jobs was still alive. Larry Ellison has frequently described Steve Jobs as one of his best friends whom he frequently went on walks with. The idea that Steve could not have gotten Larry to license ZFS seems crazy to me.
- umanwizard 11y agoDid Jobs really know/care about technical details like what filesystem OS X used?
- eli 11y agoAt one point it was a significant bullet point in the list of features being added to OS X Server. It was a big deal. I'm sure he was aware of it. http://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-announces-zfs-on-snow-leopard/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-announces-zfs-on-snow-leo...
- dlitz 11y agoI used OS X Server in 2008. It had major quality issues that seemed to only get worse with subsequent releases. Several advertised features accessible from the UI didn't work or straight-up broke things. I doubt Jobs paid much attention to it.
- rdancer 11y agoWhy would you think he wasn't? Many anecdotes mention him micromanaging minute details, and many of the things he mentions in keynotes are highly technical as well as low-level.
- umanwizard 11y agoI didn't have a prior belief either way; I was asking out of genuine curiosity.
- tw04 11y agoZFS was in the middle of a lawsuit at the time. Larry may have been willing to license it, but I doubt he was willing to indemnify.
- rsynnott 11y agoI'm sure the lawyers were not too keen to depend on a personal relationship to smooth over their dealings with Oracle, a company known in large part for suing people in novel ways.