Posts tagged with: law

Links of interest for 20 May 2010 - 30 Jun 2010: Sun’s Lost Intel-Chip Killer - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - So that's why Sun bought Montalvo. Somehow I don't think Sun would have been able to make the return on these had they come to market, but nice to know Sun's untold ambitions are coming to light. LCA: How to destroy your community [LWN.net] - Oh how true. Why the Digital Economy Act simply won't work - I think Cory Doctorow sums it up beautifully at the end... "Once you swallow a spider to catch a fly, you're on... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 30 Apr 2008 - 14 May 2008: Brussels: Uniform Interface to Driver Administration Through dladm(1m) - Finally!!! A unified simple and easy way to configure network interface settings like auto-neg, duplex, mtu etc on Solaris. Currently only in OpenSolaris and Nevada though. OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up - Great plug for OpenSolaris 2008.05 that has just been released. Microsoft Has Developed Windows Forensic Analysis Tool for Police - A bit more on the COFEE tool - looks like it's just MS bundling up a bunch of freely available tools in an... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 27 Nov 2007 - 11 Jan 2008: 2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Storage - And the award for Best Filesystem goes to... ZFS, naturally. No other filesystem has been as innovative, with such wide spread adoption, recently. Official ZFS on OS X Page - Your source for bleeding edge ZFS on OS X from one of the ZFS developers at Apple. 2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Platforms - And the award for the Most Innovative Server OS goes to... well, Solaris 10 of course. Who else? shimmer - A great alternative to port knocking,... Continue reading ►

I think NetApp may be finding themselves in a bit of a tough spot if they're not careful. As you may know, they have filed a lawsuit against Sun claiming ZFS infringes on their patents. Jonathan Schwartz, being a reasonable man, got in contact with Dave Hitz of NetApps to discuss how they could settle this dispute. The response? NetApp want Sun to "unfree ZFS" i.e. retract all ZFS code from the free world - barn doors and horses come to mind here, and limit it to only run on computers and not storage devices - aren't storage devices computers too?. Naturally, Sun declined, but instead fired off it's own reciprocal suit. Continue reading ►