Keep the copyrights current on the documentation and sources. Even look and feel is protectable (Broderbund).
The concept of using volumes (especially disconnected)is unique. That implies at least under the copyright law should MS rip yet another innovative idea. tedc -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Altman Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 1:25 AM To: ted creedon Cc: 'OpenAFS Win32 Development List'; 'openafs' Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] Announce: January 2005 OpenAFS for Windows status report ted creedon wrote: > Is there any intellectual property being created? If so is it being > protected? > > It appears that the proposed improvements are superior to Microsoft's > filesystems. > > Tedc Thank you. We are trying hard to make AFS be a highly functional distributed file system for all operating systems. I do not believe that we are producing any intellectual property which is intended to be patented. We will be working within the IETF to standardize the functionality necessary to implement RXGK. The concept of multi-stream files have existed in a variety of forms including the Macintosh Resource Fork, OS/2 Extended Attributes, and NTFS streams. The algorithms for performing normalized internationalized strings come from the IETF and the Unicode Consortium. Most of the other work is just implementing things which Microsoft has published specs for or the Samba team has reverse engineered. The hard work is simply putting it all together. Jeffrey Altman _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
