Edward Ned Harvey sh...@nedharvey.com wrote:
From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:opensolaris-
discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of russell
Given that computer software is just a series of mathematical
operations expressed in a form that can be interpreted
From: Joerg Schilling [mailto:joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de]
But in any case, patents are anachronistic. Patents have been created
to
protect inventions made by single personss against big companies 200
years ago.
Patents are now perverted by the big companies against the original
Edward Ned Harvey sh...@nedharvey.com wrote:
From: Joerg Schilling [mailto:joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de]
But in any case, patents are anachronistic. Patents have been created
to
protect inventions made by single personss against big companies 200
years ago.
Patents are now
You (Joerg Schilling) wrote:
In Great Britain, the Copyright law was introduced in 1710, in Germany the
Urgeberrecht was introduced in 1837.
Nice typo... ;-)
It's the Urheberrecht, not the Urgeberrecht. But, it might have been a good
idea to create a copyleft instead of the copykeep...
On Sep 13, 2010, at 7:01 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
If I own a company, or even shares of a company, that pays salaries
benefits to a team of engineers and pays for all their tools, and all my
engineers have agreed to intellectual property agreements with the company,
then I want to know
On 09/13/10 08:22 AM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote:
But in any case, patents are anachronistic. Patents have been created to
protect inventions made by single personss against big companies 200 years ago.
Patents are now perverted by the big companies against the original
John Martin john.m.mar...@oracle.com wrote:
On 09/13/10 08:22 AM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote:
But in any case, patents are anachronistic. Patents have been created to
protect inventions made by single personss against big companies 200 years
ago.
Patents are now
There's also a public good argument. When you patent something, yes, you get
a temporary monopoly -- but the tradeoff is you have to publicly reveal it.
In the absence of patents, more technological advances would be treated as
trade secrets and kept out of the public eye.
I do think there
On 09/13/10 13:21, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote:
John Martin john.m.mar...@oracle.com wrote:
On 09/13/10 08:22 AM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote:
But in any case, patents are anachronistic. Patents have been created to
protect inventions made by single personss
casper@sun.com wrote:
Also, the law should be changed to disallow patent trolls: if you don't
ship or plan to ship a product using your patent, then clearly you're not
suffering when someone else is using a similar invention.
This is against the original intention for patents:
Patents
casper@sun.com wrote:
Also, the law should be changed to disallow patent trolls: if you don't
ship or plan to ship a product using your patent, then clearly you're not
suffering when someone else is using a similar invention.
This is against the original intention for patents:
Patents
On 09/13/10 08:22, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote:
But in any case, patents are anachronistic. Patents have been created to
protect inventions made by single personss against big companies 200 years
ago.
Patents are now perverted by the big companies against the original
casper@sun.com wrote:
casper@sun.com wrote:
Also, the law should be changed to disallow patent trolls: if you don't
ship or plan to ship a product using your patent, then clearly you're not
suffering when someone else is using a similar invention.
This is against the original
Brian Utterback brian.utterb...@oracle.com wrote:
On 09/13/10 13:21, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote:
John Martin john.m.mar...@oracle.com wrote:
On 09/13/10 08:22 AM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote:
But in any case, patents are anachronistic. Patents have been
Brian Utterback brian.utterb...@oracle.com wrote:
On 09/13/10 08:22, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote:
But in any case, patents are anachronistic. Patents have been created to
protect inventions made by single personss against big companies 200 years
ago.
Patents are now
From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:opensolaris-
discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Joerg Schilling
I have no problems if patents do what they have been designed for.
Allow to
claim patent rights for personal inventors to prevent companies from
using the
I certainly hope the terms of the settlement are
released.
Keeping it secret would conspire to cast FUD on
all
other
distributions incorporating ZFS or considering it;
most of
which would be targeted at folks well below the
Fortune 500,
which means those not wealthy enough to
From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:opensolaris-
discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of russell
Given that computer software is just a series of mathematical
operations expressed in a form that can be interpreted by a processor,
I find the whole concept of
From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:opensolaris-
discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of No Real Name
This would only matter if they were still worth doing development for.
It's not a wise investment of time at this point, and probably never
will be again. This
It is not clear if Sun provided enough information to invalidate all the
patents that ZFS was threatened with. PJ @ Groklaw does not appear to have
updated the status of the ZFS dispute since 2008.
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This would only matter if they were still worth doing development for. It's not
a wise investment of time at this point, and probably never will be again. This
matters to dimwit suit wearing fracktards, but to everyone else it's pretty
irrelevant in the bigger picture.
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Seems like Oracle Solaris users are safe, not sure if
other companies using ZFS in their products.
re also included. I'm not a lawyer:-)
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9I4EAR80
.htm
I certainly hope the terms of the settlement are released.
Keeping it secret would conspire
Hi,
Given that computer software is just a series of mathematical operations
expressed in a form that can be interpreted by a processor, I find the whole
concept of software patents less than original.
Would it not be in the best interests of those individuals and organisations
using ZFS to
To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Sent: Fri, September 10, 2010 12:08:53 PM
Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] NetApp and Oracle settle patent dispute over ZFS
Hi,
Given that computer software is just a series of mathematical operations
expressed in a form that can be interpreted by a processor, I find
I certainly hope the terms of the settlement are
released.
Keeping it secret would conspire to cast FUD on all
other
distributions incorporating ZFS or considering it;
most of
which would be targeted at folks well below the
Fortune 500,
which means those not wealthy enough to qualify as
Seems like Oracle Solaris users are safe, not sure if other companies using
ZFS in their products.
are also included. I'm not a lawyer:-)
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9I4EAR80.htm
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