On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Erik Trimble <erik.trim...@oracle.com>wrote:
> On 12/25/2010 6:25 AM, Edward Ned Harvey 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? >> >> > While that's a bit sarcastic there Ned, it *should* be the literal truth. > But, as the SCO/Linux suit showed, having no realistic basis for a lawsuit > doesn't prevent one from being dragged through the (U.S.) courts for the > better part of a decade. > > <sigh> > > Why can't we have a loser-pays civil system like every other civilized > country? > > > -- > Erik Trimble > Java System Support > Mailstop: usca22-123 > Phone: x17195 > Santa Clara, CA > Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) > > If you've got enough money, we do. You just have to make it to the end of the trial, and have a judge who feels similar. They often award monetary settlements for the cost of legal defense to the victor. --Tim
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