Published at LXer:
You’ll all have seen and read by now about NetApp suing Sun for patent infringement. I’m not going to re-hash the arguments, but there are a couple of points of interest related to Sun’s patent strategy and open source. What occurs to me is that NetApp has gone out of its way to maintain that its patent claim is not an open source issue but an issue between two vendors about a technology that just happens to be open source. But ZFS is not an open source project.
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