> From: Joerg Schilling [mailto:joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de] > > If netapp has a chance to win this case, then this can only happen in a > non-cilized country. The "patents" netapp is claiming are just > duplicates of > prior art in my Dimploma thesis on a COW filesystem that I published in > May 1991. > > Netapp definitely does not own new ideas for COW filesystems.... > so why care about this lawsuit?
I agree. Why have a lawsuit against oracle for COW, when MS does it inside of VSS, and no lawsuit agianst MS? Not to mention, IMHO, patenting COW is like patenting the number 3. It's not an invention; it's a mathematical and logical requirement to connect 2 and 4. You want snapshots? You must not overwrite the old data. But it's yet to be decided in court, and sometimes courts do make decisions that I think are stupid. (Suing McDonalds because the coffee was hot.) IMHO, I think Oracle benefits by keeping the lawsuit open. It effectively gives them commercial monopoly on ZFS, while other commercial companies (like Apple) won't touch it. The only non-oracle entities willing to distribute ZFS right now are little things like FreeBSD, which have no assets of interest to Netapp. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
