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That's a very good suggestion. But the reality is that will never, ever happen. Linus and the Linux community as a whole exist in an echo chamber. They never r
by X86BSD 10y ago
That's a very good suggestion. But the reality is that will never, ever happen. Linus and the Linux community as a whole exist in an echo chamber.
They never resort to looking outside their little bubble world to see how others solved problems they are trying to fix. They simply are not capable of that. They constantly reinvent the wheel and reinvent it poorly. They should have simply adopted kqueue, ZFS, dtrace, jail(), etc. but didn't. They choose to refuse to see how others solved problems and use the good solutions of others.
It's one of the most damaging things about that community.
- gtaylor 10y agoI didn't think they could adopt ZFS due to licensing?
- gribbly 10y ago>ZFS, dtrace These are both using a incompatible license (CDDL), they can't be merged into mainline.
- X86BSD 10y agoThe incompatible license is the GPL. I think that's where your problem lies. IllumOS, FreeBSD had no problem at all adopting them.
- gribbly 10y agoLinux was GPL licensed long before these projects were open-sourced under CDDL, and there are obvious reasons for why Sun at the time would not want to have their technology advantages incorporated into Linux (like it being their main competitor to whom they were losing in the market place). Crafting a new GPL incompatible license for ZFS and DTrace resulted in Linux not being able to incorporate them.
- X86BSD 10y agoYou are simply dead wrong here. And Bryan Cantrill has said so publically. Sun NEVER intended for Linux not to adopt it. They wanted it to be ubiquitous across all open source platforms. IMO they should have two claused FreeBSD licensed it but they didn't.
- gribbly 10y agoBryan Catrill says one thing. Danese Cooper who was responsible for drafting the actual license while at Sun says another thing. Obvious business sense stands firmly with Danese, it would be very stupid of Sun to hand over the best technological advantages of Solaris to their main competitor, which was Linux, while struggling against it in the market. Open-sourcing Solaris was a last ditch effort from Sun to attract mindshare (and eventually market share) back from Linux, that plan would be doomed beforehand if Linux could just pick the best parts of Solaris for inclusion.