I'd already been struggling with how to scope an introduction to the struggle over ZFS licensing and the relative positions of the various players, but this news Friday about open legal battle breaking out between the SFLC and SFC makes this too timely to sit on any further. Suffice to …

So, I have two FOSS "origin" stories, if you will, sort of my counterparts to the (in)famous frustrations with a printer driver about which you may have heard. It's how I remember coming into this FOSS world.

License frustration

In the first, I went to go use this suite …