Oracle releases Solaris 10 U9 with ZFS v22 without dedup

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 03:16:40PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> : My understanding is very different. I was under impression that NetApp
> : cannot go after people using OpenSolaris until they win in court. Before
> : that every OpenSolaris code consumer is protected by CDDL. NetApp didn't
> : win, right?
> : 
> : Also:
> : 
> : "both parties have agreed to dismiss their pending patent litigation"
> : 
> : My English might not be enough here, but my reading is that because patent
> : litigation was dismissed, NetApp no longer claims (in legal sense) that
> : Oracle violates NetApp's patents via OpenSolaris. Is my reading correct
> : or not?
> 
> Not necessarily.  My reading of it was that they had some cross
> licensing agreement, and agreed to dismiss their claims without
> prejudice (meaning the patents weren't held invalid, among other
> things).

The patents are still valid of course, but NetApp didn't prove in court
that Oracle violates them with OpenSolaris, so CDDL still protects code
consumers, no?

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheelsystems.com
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