On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Edward Ned Harvey < opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com> wrote:
> > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Joerg Schilling > > > > And people should note that Netapp filed their patents starting from > 1993. > > This > > is 5 years after I started to develop WOFS, which is copy on write. This > still > > > > In any case, this is 20 year old technology. Aren't patents something to > > protect new ideas? > > Boy, those guys must be really dumb to waste their time filing billion > dollar lawsuits, protecting 20-year old technology, when it's so obvious > that you and other people clearly invented it before them, and all the > money > they waste on lawyers can never achieve anything. They should all fire > themselves. And anybody who defends against it can safely hire a law > student for $20/hr to represent them, and just pull out your documents as > defense, because that's so easy. > > Plus, as you said, the technology is so old, it should be worthless by now. > Why are we all wasting our time in this list talking about irrelevant old > technology, anyway? > Indeed. Isn't the Oracle database itself at least 20 years old? And Windows? And Solaris itself? All the employees of those companies should probably just start donating their time for free instead of collecting a paycheck since it's quite obvious they should no longer be able to charge for their product. What I find most entertaining is all the armchair lawyers on this mailing list that think they've got prior art when THEY'VE NEVER EVEN SEEN THE CODE IN QUESTION! --Tim
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