> From: Joerg Schilling [mailto:joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de] > > > Problem is... Oracle is now the only company in the world who's immune > to netapp lawsuit over ZFS. Even if IBM and Dell and HP wanted to band > together and fund the open-source development of ZFS and openindiana... > It's a real risk. > > I don't believe that there is a significant risk as the NetApp patents are > invalid because of prior art.
I agree, for that and many other reasons. But it doesn't matter what I think. It only matters what Steve Jobs and others think, and it also matters how much it would cost them to make their point in court. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
