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[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:51:10PM -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 08:52 -0400, Lyos Gemini Norezel wrote:
> > It seems awfully wasteful carrying a million or more copies of the
> > same blasted license file,
> > in a million or more locations in the OS. 
> 
> When the hell are we going to get copy-on-write files on Linux?
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_instance_storage
> 
> ... Oh wait, MS patented it.

Wow, talk about patenting the obvious ...

Masses of prior art in the functional programming world anyhow, so I
wouldn't worry about this patent.

Rich.

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