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Ugh, for the life of me I never understood why Apple didn’t make Time Machine heavily integrated with ZFS right from the get go. In those days it wasn’t Oracle
by peatmoss 8y ago
Ugh, for the life of me I never understood why Apple didn’t make Time Machine heavily integrated with ZFS right from the get go.
In those days it wasn’t Oracle, it was Sun. And I cannot imagine Apple not being able to negotiate licensing terms with Sun. Hell, Jonathan Schwartz had already worked with Steve Jobs before when Lighthouse was writing heaps of software for NeXT. I can’t imagine Schwartz and Sun not being willing to play.
In fact, back in those days Apple still was in the enterprise game with XServe hardware. Fellow NeXT / Apple aficionados and I remember one WWDC where we were suspecting a big Sun-Apple partnership announcement, possibly paving the way for a future Apple acquisition of Sun.
But then Oracle happened and burned everything that had been good about Sun to the ground. I have mostly given up my 1990s-born hatred of Microsoft and Bill Gates. It’ll be some time before I’d ever trust Oracle or Ellison.