Re: [9fans] OT: ZFS

[bmaroshe@itcollege.ee]

It seems very unlikely to me, that Europe will not follow this path in a few weeks.

"We want to build picket fences around the technologies that we think are most important for the future."
 --AT&T IP department vice president Jeff George in 2000

"You get value from patents in two ways: through fees, and through licensing negotiations that give IBM access to other patents. The IBM patent portfolio gains us the freedom to do what we need to do through cross-licensing--it gives us access to the inventions of others that are the key to rapid innovation. Access is far more valuable to IBM than the fees it receives from its 9,000 active patents. There's no direct calculation of this value, but it's many times larger than the fee income, perhaps an order of magnitude larger."
 --IBM assistant general counsel Roger Smith in 1990

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
 --Isaac Newton

boris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
Date: Friday, September 17, 2004 6:21 pm
Subject: Re: [9fans] OT: ZFS

> 
> 
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 rog@vitanuova.com wrote:
> 
> > could they really patent such a trivial thing
> 
> Hey, it's the US. The old saying used to be that a clever 
> prosecutor could 
> get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. Now you can patent it.
> 
> ron
>