Ten Reasons To *NOT* Use ZFS:

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 07:49 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:

> > I don't see a solution there... Either a company patents it now as a
> > protective measure or they let someone else do it.  Either way
> > it might end up owned by someone else later.  What's the alternative?
> 
> Patent it, then put the patent into the Public Domain. That's what
> Benjamin Franklin, who argued passionately against having patents
> at all, used to do.

Is someone offering to cover the costs for that?

> > Do you expect the patent office to suddenly start doing their job
> > and disallowing patents that are obvious or mathematical algorithms?
> 
> The Patent Office does not issue patents for algorithms, only for
> applications of them to particular processes, or as improvements
> thereto.

>From a computer person's perspective, programs do nothing but
algorithms. 

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  Les Mikesell
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