NetApp's Data ONTAP on non-NetApp hardware?

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At my work we use a NetApp SAN for our data storage. A co-worker told me that our login for the NetApp site gives us access to download their Data ONTAP OS. Apparently it is based off of linux and supports a lot of non-NetApp hardware. He said that one of the NetApp reps told him that when they audited a few places they found that people were using their software on hundreds of non-NetApp boxes for commercial use which is apparently not allowed.

I have looked all over and can't find any sort of documentation of people doing this. Has anyone tried running a NAS using ONTAP?
 
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