>Playing with patent portfolios is the modern equivalent to playing the >"mutually assured destruction" game with nuclear missiles. Yes we all >appreciate how dangereous this game is and how high the stakes are. >But ... notice that a live/armed ballistic missile has never been >fired at a "target".
Now that you mention Nuclear weapons, am I really the only one who is amused by the uproar about a B52 with nukes flying over the US? Until the Minuteman missiles came online, we had B52s in Europe's airspace 24/7 full with nukes (and some did crash and non exploded). (That they were accidently loaded is, of course, another matter; it reminds me of the nuclear plant which was sold for scrapmetal and nearly exported) I'm somewhat surprised that people feel that Sun employees should speak out on this matter. Both Netapp and Sun seem to leave that to their CEOs (apart from the lawyers who fling documents at one another). I'm guessing that Linus is now really happy about having said this: "I suspect we'd be better off talking to NetApp, and seeing if they are interested in releasing WAFL for Linux" Casper _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
