NetApp Hits Sun With Patent Infringement Lawsuit

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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Re:ComputerWorld Story Placement

[Frosty Piss]

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).