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By: anotheropinion

anotheropinion — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:13:11 +0000

Sun has devolved from a network company into a systems company. I think Sun’s days may be numbered.

By: rik

rik — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:42:19 +0000

If it wasn’t for (Free)BSD and Sun’s NFS there would be NO NetApp, as well as many other corps.
-and what has NetApp given back freely/openly for public use. wafl ?
….that’s what I thought -about as much as Micro$oft.

By: Silence

Silence — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:59:23 +0000

@Nathan
I don’t think a corporate blog is a reliable source for questions like who started the fire. I also won’t use Jonathan Schwartz’ blog as a reference. I think only the two parties in this suit know who started this all and the rest is speculations.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:22:33 +0000

Actually, NetApp *didn’t* fire the first shot. NetApp’s patent allegations are in response to Sun’s own patent claims. I don’t know why this aspect of the story is so frequently glossed over by the media. See http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/2007/09/sun… for a reference.

By: Boycott Novell » Microsoft’s OSBC As a Showcase of Battles Against GNU/Linux

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:54:55 +0000

[...] Matt mentions MySQL, which was acquired. It ought to be added yet again that Sun Microsystems’ ambivalent view on software patents does not help all that much. Watch the language in the following news report about Sun’s counter-strike against NetApp: But perhaps the harshest accusation Sun leveled against NetApp in its latest filing came in the opening paragraph of the suit. Chiding NetApp for only spending about $390 million on research and development last year and for holding “only approximately 200″ patents, Sun declared: “Indeed, rather than innovate, NetApp builds on the innovation of others” and “NetApp … uses extensive amounts of open source code developed by others, without contributing any innovation of its own.” [...]

By: kpc

kpc — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:18:40 +0000

Hi Rafflo,

I hope you understand What is Open and Closed Technology.

Open - Publically available Technology. Can be shared
Closed - Private Technology. No sharing.

You can only share what belongs to you. However you can use some other technology basics provided they share it.

For example,
Alexander Graham Bell invented Telephone Technology years ago.
This is a Open technology of making telephones and the technology is open.
But Nokia, Motorola use the Phone technology as a basics because the concept is Open. However Nokia does not copy Patented Motorola’s technology today.

Hence Sun (Similar to Bell) has invented NFS. Great. It is open.
NetApp used NFS that is open and it is nothing wrong.
Here NetApp did not use any Patented Closed Technology of Sun.

Whereas Sun took a Patented Closed Technology and created ZFS which is wrong. May be Sun should change slogan to “Brilliant CopyCats”

Sun being a Bigger company should understand and acknowledge the work of a Smaller company and move on to the Next Big Innovation like the laser Chipset. Sun Don’t bully.