Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:48:45 +0300 | From | Boaz Harrosh <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Added CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES option |
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On 07/01/2009 01:50 PM, tridge@samba.org wrote: > Hi Pavel, > > We did of course consider that, and the changes to the patch to > implement collision avoidance are relatively simple. We didn't do it > as it would weaken the legal basis behind the patch. I'll leave it to > John Lanza (the LF patent attorney) to expand on that if you want more > information. >
You completely lost me here. And I thought I did understand the patent and the fix.
what is the difference between.
short_name = rand(sid); and short_name = sid++;
Now if you would do short_name = MD5(long_name);
That I understand since short_name is some function of long_name but if I'm just inventing the short_name out of my hat. In what legal system does it matter what is my random function I use?
> Cheers, Tridge
Boaz
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