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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: Hank Leininger <hlein@progressive-comp.com>,
       Hank Leininger <linux-kernel@progressive-comp.com>,
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Subject: Re: Re: TUX2 filesystem
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 05:21:06 +0200
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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
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