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Sun To Seek Injunction, Damages Against NetApp
Zeddicus_Z writes to note that Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz has outlined Sun's response to Network Appliance's recent patent infringement lawsuit over ZFS: "As a part of this suit, we are requesting a permanent injunction to remove all of their filer products from the marketplace, and are examining the original NFS license — on which Network Appliance was started. In addition... we will be going after sizable monetary damages. And I am committing that Sun will donate half of those proceeds to the leading institutions promoting free software and patent reform... [Regarding NetApp's demands in order to drop its existing case against Sun:] ...[to] unfree ZFS, to retract it from the free software community, and to limit ZFS's allowable field of use to computers — and to forbid its use in storage devices."
Your honour this little fly-by-night company has dared to file a lawsuite against the glory that is Sun.
As a minimum response we want them bitch-slapped raked over the coals and then chopped up into little pieces and dumped at sea.
And just in case you don't think Sun is grand enough to make this happen, we are soliciting help from those people who want to reform the freakishly complicated patent system.
Thank you.
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You must have some fucking terrible lawyers.
Either that or your reading comprehension sucks.
Which is more likely?
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