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protomyth
on Oct 23, 2009
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Apple Pulls the Plug Completely on ZFS
I'm all for hardware patents (they seem to get licensed and used), but these software ones have to go.
randallsquared
on Oct 23, 2009
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The Firewire patent(s) arguably killed Firewire, in an analogous way to software patents.
adamc
on Oct 24, 2009
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I think you mean the license fees killed Firewire. Apple got greedy and lost.
wmf
on Oct 24, 2009
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It's the same thing. The purpose of the Firewire patents was to collect licensing fees.
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