Comment Re: Watch Mr Bates vs the Post Office: The Real St (Score 2) 72
The Post Office is 100% owned by the UK government. It is everything to do with them.
Comment Re:Budweiser Rocket. (Score 1) 405
And since ThrustSSC went supersonic, we now know what a real supersonic run looks like. Sonic boom, visible shockwaves, disturbance to the ground surface etc. The Budweiser Rocket did none of those things. It definitely went fast but supersonic? I doubt it.
Comment Re:Except for NetApp (Score 1) 385
The NetApp vs Sun lawsuit over ZFS isn't going the way NetApp would like it to
http://www.sun.com/lawsuit/zfs/index.jsp
To the contrary, NetApp may end up like SCO vs Novell, where the initial complainant ends up owing the respondent. Sun could very well end up both pwning AND owning NetApp.
As for the antivirus companies - I wish, but there will always be *some* "useful fools" around, and people whose financial self-interest aligns with enabling them to stay dumb and foolish.
According to a post on a Sun website
And, guess what, if you look on NetApp's website they disagree!
http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/2008/11/lawsuits-and-fo.html
Neither of these are likely to be good sources of information. It's quite possible that prior art will deal with all the patents in play by both companies.
Pete
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