51 blog reactions to http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/on_patent_trolling

Network Appliance is no more. The company that made the second enterprise storage device I ever used, added the terms “filer” and “appliance” to the enterprise IT lexicon, and long suffered from a confusing array of names, is now officially called NetApp. This is probably a good idea. A company needs a single name, and NetApp is what lots of people (even me) have long called the company. Plus, it’s never good to have your company name be the same as one of your

Network Appliance is no more. The company that made the second enterprise storage device I ever used, added the terms “filer” and “appliance” to the enterprise IT lexicon, and long suffered from a confusing array of names

assured we will use this opportunity to highlight the futility of using software patents to forestall competition - in the commercial marketplace, and among the free community. You can read the back-story here: Free Advice for the Litigious... On Patent Trolling: "Thank you Network Appliance" Technorati Tags: IP, jonathan.schwartz, lawsuit, netapp, opensource, patents, sun, ZFS

assured we will use this opportunity to highlight the futility of using software patents to forestall competition - in the commercial marketplace, and among the free community. You can read the back-story here: Free Advice for the Litigious... On Patent Trolling: "Thank you Network Appliance" Technorati Tags: IP, jonathan.schwartz, lawsuit, netapp, opensource, patents, sun, ZFS

assured we will use this opportunity to highlight the futility of using software patents to forestall competition - in the commercial marketplace, and among the free community. You can read the back-story here: Free Advice for the Litigious... On Patent Trolling: "Thank you Network Appliance" Technorati Tags: IP, jonathan.schwartz, lawsuit, netapp, opensource, patents, sun, ZFS

we will use this opportunity to highlight the futility of using software patents to forestall competition - in the commercial marketplace, and among the free community. Wow. You can read the back-story here: Free Advice for the Litigious... On Patent Trolling: "Thank you Network Appliance" Technorati Tags: jonathan.schwartz, sun, ZFS, IP, opensource, patents, netapp, lawsuit

The on-going patent battle with NetApp is a perfect example: “Thank you, Network Appliance” stated Schwartz in response to the news that NetApp had launched patent infringement claims against his company. A calm and considered response. The URL, on_patent_trolling suggests he would like to have said a few other things instead. In fact he probably did, and it would be fascinating to read draft the original, but we only get access to the title. Similarly, last week

plataformas (Apple lo ha implementado en su nuevo sistema operativo Leopard). Un sistema de archivos no es más que la idea de cómo organizar los datos lógicos en las unidades físicas. Jonathan Schwartz, CEO de Sun publica al día siguiente esta nota en su blog, contestando este litigio, puntualizando lo inutil que es tratar de detener la innovación a base de patentes y agradeciendo a NetApp la oportunidad de informar a todos sus clientes las ventajas de el almacenamiento open source.

and attempt to reassure the the open source ZFS community that “this lawsuit isn’t about downloads for personal or non-commercial use; it is about what Sun is doing.” Sun’s president and CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, responded and negotiations began. It now appears that they have not been successful, however, and Schwartz has announced that Sun has filed its counterclaims, including a request for a permanent injunction that will remove all of NetApp

"This is something people feared for a long time was coming," said Mark A. Lemley, a law professor at Stanford University." [Link in text added by LawPundit]After responding to that NetApps suit initially in his blog on September 6 (via Scobleizer), Schwartz now indicates in his October 24 posting that Sun, clearly angered by what they view to be totally unnecessary patent litigation brought against them, will go after NetApps with a vengeance for having brought the suit in the