leizaola@hk.com (Maren S. Leizaola) wrote:
I post this here in case you guys at NetApp have not seen it.
http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/03/13/1847246.shtml?tid=137&tid=162&t...
Well, I am glad to see that piece of trollery has now had a reply:
< Re:Network Appliance should donate a filer (Score:0) < by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 15, @01:05PM (#11944946) < < The theory that "OnTap OS is BSD, has always been BSD" is not grounded < in fact. While it is true that there is free UCB s/w included in OnTap, < and NetApp has benefited from it, I can assure you that the "OS kernel" < is NOT BSD. Or Mach. Or (insert favorite OS here). Since it has no < "command set" per se, the commands also aren't from BSD. < < You'd have to ask some current NetApp person about the current list of < components that are derived from free software, but when I was there < (in the OnTap 6.0->6.4 timeframe), I can assure you that amount of < BSD-derived code was quite small. < < Which isn't to say that NetApp shouldn't consider making a donation. But < don't walk in telling NetApp that they "owe you" because they're using < your OS to make money. Because they're not.