25 Oct
2007
25 Oct
'07
11:54 p.m.
Glenn wrote:
Let me see if I got this straight: ZFS copied the snapshot technologies, and general way that WAFL works, which is patented by NetApp. Then released it to the open source community.
You got that about right.
What did I miss?
StorageTek's Iceberg product was where a lot of the concepts came from originally.
It's a matter of the judge & jury's preference and the questions that are put before them - should you be able to implement a technology solution concept with your code if you use some of the same algorithms? Did Sun actually see the source code and steal it? Who is a llowed to copy who? Who owns the original patents?
Looks like quite a circular argument to me.
It'll be interesting to see who wins.