Re: ZFS

[vincent <10.50%free.fr@localhost>]

Le 8 nov. 2009 à 22:08, Steven Bellovin a écrit :

> There's a lot more I won't go into, like the "doctine of  
> equivalents".  The net, though, is to the extent that the patent is  
> valid in jurisdictions of interest, you can't evade it by changing  
> code; you probably have to change functionality.

Ok. You are probably right, my knowledge of patent limits itself to  
the French root of the word (in French, patente means licen[cs]e) ! :)

I was just wondering if, given the current environment, it was really  
worth carrying on work on ZFS rather than waiting for the whole affair  
to subside.

Cheers
Vincent