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Looks like it was a legal issue: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/10/23/zfs http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/10/23/zfs

• thehigherlife 17y ago
  That's too bad if so. ZFS is pretty cool technology (i've been pretty impressed with it so far for my personal use). I was really hoping it was going to be added at some point to OSX. Hopefully apple's in house implementation will fix a lot of the same issues ZFS was aiming at.
• msie 17y ago
  Ah yes, patents - the enemy of progress.
  • protomyth 17y ago
    I'm all for hardware patents (they seem to get licensed and used), but these software ones have to go.
    • randallsquared 17y ago
      The Firewire patent(s) arguably killed Firewire, in an analogous way to software patents.
      • adamc 17y ago
        I think you mean the license fees killed Firewire. Apple got greedy and lost.
        • wmf 17y ago
          It's the same thing. The purpose of the Firewire patents was to collect licensing fees.