Re:Translation for the non-lawyers (Score 1)

Okay you should know something of your subject before posting. WAFL (or ZFS features) is and has been an integral part of NetApp storage for many years now. Before ZFS development was even started NetApp was basing its business off of WAFL on storage devices. In fact a few weeks ago NetApp was honored at an industry event for their innovation in developing WAFL (funny part is that Sun helped sponsor the event!). Sun comes along, and maybe not maliciously, copies the features of WAFL because of the value, sees the similarity, and quickly open sources it to be the "good guy". The patent system sucks--already had that discussion many times, but it seems pretty cut and dried. And on top of all this Dave Hitz from NetApp says he doesn't want to take ZFS away from the open source community, he just doesn't want Sun (it isn't capitalized!) to build their business on copied features to compete with them. Bottom line....NetApp is NOT a patent troll. Sun got their hand caught in the cookie jar.