Ten Reasons To *NOT* Use ZFS:

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Jun 26 15:19:23 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 10:13 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 07:49 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>>I don't see a solution there... Either a company patents it now as a
> >>>protective measure or they let someone else do it.  Either way
> >>>it might end up owned by someone else later.  What's the alternative?
> >>
> >>Patent it, then put the patent into the Public Domain. That's what
> >>Benjamin Franklin, who argued passionately against having patents
> >>at all, used to do.
> > 
> > 
> > Is someone offering to cover the costs for that?
> 
> I thought you were looking for an alternative to simply patenting
> something. It costs no more to put something into the Public Domain.
> 
> Today, patents only help large corporations. They are useless to the
> small company and individuals.
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not always but almost always. I have seen individuals and small
companies make patent attorneys extremely wealthy by giving out stakes
as payments for the legal work - the system is in shambles though, I
will agree.

Craig




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