FOSS and multiple competing commercial interests

Posted Oct 15, 2008 13:19 UTC (Wed) by masoncl (subscriber, #47138)
In reply to: FOSS and multiple competing commercial interests by kripkenstein
Parent article: Linux Summit will preview new advanced file system (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)

The Linux filesystems copy quite a bit of code and ideas between themselves. Btrfs includes code from ext2, ext3, reiserfs and xfs, and this wouldn't be possible if I had chosen a different license.