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Re:Rackspace accused of patent infringement for hosting Github by icebraining on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @01:45PM (#4539476)
Git doesn't violate this in any way. Read the claims. They're talking about distributing data throughout a network of servers, using an hash as a key to know from which servers to request the data. It's more similar to database sharding.
Re:Rackspace accused of patent infringement for hosting Github by rbanffy on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @03:34PM (#4540059)
> They're talking about distributing data throughout a network of servers

Hmm... We used that to shard the MySQL databases for our WordPress setup too...

Re:Rackspace accused of patent infringement for hosting Github by bloodredsun on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @03:23PM (#4539998)
So Memcached then...