Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755515AbXFPTig (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:38:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751601AbXFPTi2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:38:28 -0400 Received: from host86-137-96-215.range86-137.btcentralplus.com ([86.137.96.215]:35387 "EHLO hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750869AbXFPTi1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:38:27 -0400 Message-ID: <46743C22.2050303@hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:38:10 +0100 From: Jack Stone User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jeffrey V. Merkey" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, alan , hpa@zytor.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Subject: Re: Versioning file system References: <46731169.2090002@hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org> <467314E2.9010306@zytor.com> <46739B2C.4080606@hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org> <4673B15B.2080300@wolfmountaingroup.com> <4673B77E.1000803@wolfmountaingroup.com> <20070616164931.GF14788@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu> <46744225.7000609@wolfmountaingroup.com> In-Reply-To: <46744225.7000609@wolfmountaingroup.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1130 Lines: 28 Jeffrey V. Merkey wrote: > When you get into the recycling issues with storage, the patents come > into play. Also, using the file name to reference revisions is already > the subject of a patent previously filed (I no longer own the patent, I > sold them to Canopy). There is a third one about to be issued. > > The patents are: > * > 6,862,609 > **6,795,895 > > and this one about to be issued: > > http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/fetch.jsp?LANG=ENG&DBSELECT=PCT&SERVER_TYPE=19&SORT=1211506-KEY&TYPE_FIELD=256&IDB=0&IDOC=1205953&C=10&ELEMENT_SET=IA,WO,TTL-EN&RESULT=1&TOTAL=3&START=1&DISP=25&FORM=SEP-0/HITNUM,B-ENG,DP,MC,PA,ABSUM-ENG&SEARCH_IA=US2005045566&QUERY=%28IN%2fmerkey%29+ > > > The last one was filed with WIPO and has international protection, UK > included. I have no idea about patents so if anyone could point me in the right direction I would be most obliged Jack - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/