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Re:The FreeBSD Foundation falls short of its 2012 fundraisin... by SageRaven on Monday December 10, 2012 @04:30PM (#4901616)
I heard during some NetApp training I took (not certain how authoritative my instructor was)that Data OnTap was a customized version of FreeBSD 4.x, which has long since been EOL. While I believe NetApp did contribute back some things to the FreeBSD tree way back in the day, I would guess they haven't in many, many years (but that's pure speculation on my part).
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Re:The FreeBSD Foundation falls short of its 2012 fundraisin... by gavinatkinson on Thursday December 13, 2012 @07:37AM (#4915453)
Quite the opposite, in fact. NetApp have contributed BHyVe (http://bhyve.org/ / http://wiki.freebsd.org/BHyVe), a full BSD-licensed Hypervisor, in the last year. They make regular contributions to several network card drivers and other low-level code. At least one or two FreeBSD committers are full-time members of NetApp staff.
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Re:The FreeBSD Foundation falls short of its 2012 fundraisin... by SageRaven on Friday December 14, 2012 @01:28PM (#4922359)
That's good to hear. It cancels some of my ill-will toward the company due to the ZFS lawsuit.
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