On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 03:33:33PM -0800, Petcher, Daniel wrote: > Is it just my mis-perception, or is this new Apple Time Machine > (http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/timemachine.html) backup I hear > described in their new "Leopard" OS (not to mention the barely-developed > Linux clone called Flyback - http://code.google.com/p/flyback/) eerily > familiar? > > Sure, they've got a pretty Apple-style GUI, some logic added to skip cache > files, pre-configure the expiration process. and resume after a shut-down, > but it's essentially the same idea we've been using for years. > > I'm not sure whether to feel validated or ripped-off. What do you think?
As long as I can still use dirvish, I don't mind if there are zillions of systems out there that copy it. We lose nothing by it, and people doing things our way are potentially more helpful than people doing things other ways. This might result in new features for OS-X that will help it interoperate with rsync, and that would help us back up Macs onto Linux servers, for example. Potentially more troublesome is that Apple might patent their extensions, and preclude us from using them. That would be a rip-off; an opportunity would be taken from us. However, if Apple actually copied from dirvish (ideas if not actual Perl code) I expect they will care more about their "good guy" image than about harrassing folks like us. Apple has been pretty good about sharing most things (Rendezvous, for example). Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
