Re: Leaving Oracle

[David Pottage <david@chrestomanci.org>]

On 07/06/12 02:04, Chris Mason wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Oracle has been a fantastic place to work, and I really appreciate their
> support for my projects.  But, I've decided to take a new position at
> Fusion-io.  I will start the new job on Monday, June 11.
Congratulations.
> Fusion-io really believes in open source, and I'm excited to help
> them shape the future of high performance storage.

Are you sure about that?

I installed one of their IO Drive SSD cards in one of my employer's 
servers, and while the driver source code was supplied, the licence was 
definitely not open source. (See http://www.fusionio.com/legal/eula/)
> 4.1         General Restrictions.  [...] you will not, and will not 
> permit or authorize third parties to: (a) reproduce, modify, 
> translate, enhance, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, or 
> create derivative works of the Software;