Messages in this thread |  | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: Re: TUX2 filesystem | Date | Tue, 27 Aug 2002 05:21:06 +0200 |
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On Monday 26 August 2002 22:06, Hank Leininger wrote: > On 2002-08-26, <Hell.Surfers@cwctv.net> wrote: > > > what patent issues.??? > > [ Please beat your mail{reader,vendor} into defaulting to bottom-posting ] > > > On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de> wrote: > > > Maybe yourself, Daniel, care to comment ? > > > It's well down my list of priorities because of uncertainties due to > > the U.S. patent system. > > > > Does anybody want to know if patent chill exists, and is it hurting > > open source? The answer is yes. > > I'm guessing Daniel is referring to NetApp/WAFL issues. NetApp's WAFL > filesystem (IIRC) implements something which is kinda sorta if-you-squint- > your-eyes philosophically similar to tux2's phase tree. Only > > a) It isn't *really* all that similar > b) Daniel has prior art going back to the 1980's > c) NetApp has more lawyers on staff than Daniel does > > Daniel, did I get it vaguely right
That about sums it up.
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