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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: Hank Leininger <hlein@progressive-comp.com>,
	Hank Leininger <linux-kernel@progressive-comp.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re: TUX2 filesystem
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 05:21:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E17jWuh-0002bx-00@starship> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200208262006.g7QK6uH29932@marc2.theaimsgroup.com>

On Monday 26 August 2002 22:06, Hank Leininger wrote:
> On 2002-08-26, <Hell.Surfers@cwctv.net> wrote:
> 
> > what patent issues.???
> 
> [ Please beat your mail{reader,vendor} into defaulting to bottom-posting ]
> 
> > On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de> wrote: 
> > > Maybe yourself, Daniel, care to comment ?
> 
> > It's well down my list of priorities because of uncertainties due to
> > the U.S. patent system.
> >
> > Does anybody want to know if patent chill exists, and is it hurting
> > open source?  The answer is yes.
> 
> I'm guessing Daniel is referring to NetApp/WAFL issues.  NetApp's WAFL
> filesystem (IIRC) implements something which is kinda sorta if-you-squint-
> your-eyes philosophically similar to tux2's phase tree.  Only
> 
> a) It isn't *really* all that similar
> b) Daniel has prior art going back to the 1980's
> c) NetApp has more lawyers on staff than Daniel does
> 
> Daniel, did I get it vaguely right

That about sums it up.

-- 
Daniel

  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-27  3:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-26 20:06 Hank Leininger
2002-08-27  3:21 ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2002-08-28 22:49   ` Daniel Mose
2002-08-28 23:14     ` yodaiken
2002-09-01 21:56       ` Daniel Phillips

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