Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ... open source moving forward?

[Edward Ned Harvey]

> From: Joerg Schilling [mailto:Joerg.Schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> 
> > 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.

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