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    14 hours ago

    Oracle funding doesn’t sound like a good thing at all since they’re basically CIA cloud ran by one of the most influential Zionists. But an unstable filesystem sounds even worse.

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      5 hours ago

      Everyone always says “Companies should fund FOSS instead of spending money on big corpos!”, yet then this.

      It’s FOSS. It’s auditable. Funding is a good thing.

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        5 hours ago

        That’s true, but we also know that funding can come with stipulations. Oracle is an especially sketchy company.

        But that counts for all big tech I guess.

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          2 hours ago

          In this situation it works well, IMO. For some more context, ZFS was created by Sun (FOSS). Oacle bought them and built Oracle ZFS out of it. OpenZFS forked at that point from Sun code, and that’s what we use in Linux/etc. The Oracle variant supplies support to the FOSS variant. So Oracle has no control over OpenZFS.