Al Hopper wrote: > So back to patent portfolios: yes there will be (public and private) > posturing; yes there will be negotiations; and, ultimately, there will > be a resolution. All of this won't affect ZFS or anyone running ZFS.
It matters a great deal what the resolution is. The best outcome, for everyone wanting to use any COW and/or always-consistent-on-disk filesystem (including btrfs and others), would be for the invalidation part of NetApp's lawsuit to succeed, and the infringement part to fail. A cross-licensing deal or other out-of-court settlement would be much less helpful. -- David Hopwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
