Comments on: Messylaneous: reading, catchup https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2010/07/12/messylaneous-reading-catchup/ A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:33:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: RayOfHope https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2010/07/12/messylaneous-reading-catchup/comment-page-1/#comment-41116 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:33:09 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=6088#comment-41116 Maybe Matt should move to NZ -> “It’s official: Software will be unpatentable in NZ” http://www.nzcs.org.nz/news/blog.php?/archives/97-.html :-)

]]> By: Justin Sherrill https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2010/07/12/messylaneous-reading-catchup/comment-page-1/#comment-41099 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:23:25 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=6088#comment-41099 Well, it IS a slashdot story, so take it as you will.

]]> By: Lazarus https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2010/07/12/messylaneous-reading-catchup/comment-page-1/#comment-41097 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:27:17 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=6088#comment-41097 I’m going to have to agree with RayOfHope on this one. Also it seems that the patent at the core of NetApp’s infringement claims (patent No. 6,892,211) was shot down WRT ZFS. [Yeah, yeah, Citation Needed]

Really tho, no one seems safe from this imaginary property bullshit.

]]> By: RayOfHope https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2010/07/12/messylaneous-reading-catchup/comment-page-1/#comment-41096 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:04:49 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=6088#comment-41096 I don’t want to sound pessimistic (and I’m not a lawyer), but IIRC DragonFlyBSD is still from the software patents “infected” U.S. and I highly doubt Matt had the resources nor the time to do a thorough patent-research before he started coding hammer, just because you write your code from scratch doesn’t mean you’re not violating any (software) patents IIRC

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