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Date:      Tue, 21 Mar 2000 19:32:48 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in (Rahul Siddharthan)
Cc:        kris@hiwaay.net (Kris Kirby), brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD"
Message-ID:  <200003211932.MAA02804@usr06.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0003190928030.605-100000@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in> from "Rahul Siddharthan" at Mar 19, 2000 09:28:45 AM

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> > > 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
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