On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:51:10PM -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 08:52 -0400, Lyos Gemini Norezel wrote:
> It seems awfully wasteful carrying a million or more copies of the
> same blasted license file,
> in a million or more locations in the OS.
When the hell are we going to get copy-on-write files on Linux?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_instance_storage
... Oh wait, MS patented it.
Wow, talk about patenting the obvious ...
Masses of prior art in the functional programming world anyhow, so I
wouldn't worry about this patent.
Rich.
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