From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 21 11:33:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.primenet.com (smtp05.primenet.com [206.165.6.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A49C437BF95 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 11:32:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp05.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA22768; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 12:32:41 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp05.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAEpaazS; Tue Mar 21 12:32:34 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA02804; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 12:32:48 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200003211932.MAA02804@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD" To: rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in (Rahul Siddharthan) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 19:32:48 +0000 (GMT) Cc: kris@hiwaay.net (Kris Kirby), brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Rahul Siddharthan" at Mar 19, 2000 09:28:45 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > Dual licensing doesn't work. Reiser will be caught in the same > > > trap as Deutsch. > > > > I'm really not trying to start a flame-war, but do you have a URL on this > > one? I'd be interested to know the particulars of the deal. > > http://devlinux.com/projects/reiserfs/13_1.html http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?pn=US05642501__ http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?pn=US05666532__ Realize that these are issue dates, and that filing dates go significantly further back. | A computer system having data organized in files, having a secondary | storage for storing files, having a primary storage, and having one or | more types of file subsystems (file system implementations) for | controlling transfer of files between primary storage and secondary | storage. A subset of writes to secondary storage are performed using a | Delayed Ordered Write (DOW) subsystem, which makes it possible for | any file system to control the order in which modifications are | propagated to disk. See also the prior art, dating back to 1992. You thought the USL vs. BSDI lawsuit was bad, with 20 year old already-disclosed "Trade Secrets"... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message