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NetApp Hits Sun With Patent Infringement Lawsuit

Posted by samzenpus on from the don't-take-the-law-into-your-own-hands dept.

jcatcw writes "Computerworld reports, "Network Appliance Inc. today announced that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Sun Microsystems Inc. seeking unspecified compensatory damages and an injunction that would prohibit Sun from developing or distributing products based on its ZFS file system technology. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Lufkin, Texas, charges that the Sun ZFS technology infringes on seven NetApp patents pertaining to data processing systems and related software.""

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  1. Re:ComputerWorld Story Placement by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Yes, she doesn't like lowly Slashdot users sticking their noses into the Story Acceptance process:

    Firehose: misplaced democracy or no democracy at all?

    By Joyce Carpenter

    Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Or so it says. Recently Slashdot implemented a system that apparently allows users to vote on which news and stuff they'd like to see on the homepage. The feature is called Firehose.

    It's a bad metaphor and a bad idea.

    When I (Slashdot nickname: jcatcw) first discovered /., it was a site for science & technology stories submitted by the community and selected by the editors. Early on, when I got a story accepted, the response from the dotters was so great that it crashed our site. That might sound bad, but we can buy more servers (in fact, we have).

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  2. IDG Playing Slashdot by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    On close examination IDG, which owns a number of domains and "magazines" gets quite a bit of exposure this way at Slashdot. I don't think Slashdot "supports" this, I don't think its "editors" are smart enough to pick up on it. But Slashdot is clearly being "played" for financial gain by IDG and its stable of "bloggers" and other content authors.

    Take this guy for example: narramissic. He shills for "itworld.com", another IDG property (besides ComputerWorld)

    The truth is that ITWorld and ComputerWorld rarely have the best or even complete articles on whatever the subject is, they are simply vehicles to sell advertising.

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  3. what is it this time? by SolusSD · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Someone has the patent on the concept of managing 'something' with 'something'? In this case files with a filesystem? I'm really sick of patent trolls.