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Re:Apple Pulls the Plug Completely on ZFS by protomyth on Friday October 23, 2009 @04:44PM (#899592)
I'm all for hardware patents (they seem to get licensed and used), but these software ones have to go.
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Re:Apple Pulls the Plug Completely on ZFS by randallsquared on Friday October 23, 2009 @05:17PM (#899637)
The Firewire patent(s) arguably killed Firewire, in an analogous way to software patents.
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Re:Apple Pulls the Plug Completely on ZFS by adamc on Saturday October 24, 2009 @01:36AM (#900154)
I think you mean the license fees killed Firewire. Apple got greedy and lost.
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Re:Apple Pulls the Plug Completely on ZFS by wmf on Saturday October 24, 2009 @05:10PM (#900946)
It's the same thing. The purpose of the Firewire patents was to collect licensing fees.
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