Messages in this thread |  | | Date | 3 Oct 2000 07:29:14 -0000 | From | (Chris Good) | Subject | Re: Tux2 - evil patents sighted |
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In article <news2mail-39D93163.343E7A9B@innominate.de>, Daniel Phillips wrote: >Thomas Graichen forwarded me some interesting information from the >freebsd-fsdevel list regarding 3 patents held by Network Appliance
A couple of points: First their patents are very much tied into their implementation of WAFL, your implementation of Tux2 should be sufficiently different not to cause a problem. You mentioned multi-bit maps which sounds like a big enough difference on its own. Second Netapp are a pretty nice bunch and chasing someone doing GPL code isn't their style. Thirdly a hell of a lot of people buying Netapp products are fans of linux/*BSD, I very much doubt that they're going to risk their bottom line.
Chris
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