From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
To: jdow <jdow@earthlink.net>
Cc: Xuan Baldauf <xuan--lkml@baldauf.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Heuristic readahead for filesystems
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 10:20:28 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209111011330.1576-100000@blue1.dev.mcafeelabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0b1701c259b5$16d6be40$1125a8c0@wednesday>
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, jdow wrote:
> Davide, when was the patent on readahead taken out? It has either expired
> or I can prove prior art I did myself on the old StarDrive and HardFrame
> controllers for the Amiga made by Microbotics, Inc.
I'm definitely not a patent attorney :) but since there's the tendency to
patent almost everything in big corporations ( my Co. gives $ 2K for each
patent filed, plus another $ 1K if it's approved ) I bet that there's a
patent pending somewhere about this. Even if someone have prior art about
hw prefecting, imho there's the possibility to patent a software ( kernel
) based version of the art. I also do not think M$ to be so dumb to adopt
a technique that is described inside a someone else owned patent in US.
But again, i'm not a patent attorney ...
- Davide
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-11 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-11 15:42 Heuristic readahead for filesystems Xuan Baldauf
2002-09-11 16:33 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-09-11 17:03 ` jdow
2002-09-11 17:20 ` Davide Libenzi [this message]
2002-09-11 17:51 ` jdow
2002-09-11 17:16 ` Hans Reiser
2002-09-11 16:42 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-11 17:20 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-09-11 17:56 ` Xuan Baldauf
2002-09-11 18:30 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-09-11 18:43 ` Xuan Baldauf
2002-09-11 19:04 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-09-11 19:21 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-09-12 0:45 ` jw schultz
2002-09-12 1:58 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-12 11:41 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-09-12 13:35 ` jw schultz
2002-09-12 21:33 ` jdow
2002-09-16 12:52 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-09-17 1:45 ` jdow
2002-09-17 10:37 ` jbradford
2002-09-17 5:19 ` jdow
2002-09-12 12:41 ` Jesse Pollard
2002-09-11 19:03 ` Tomas Szepe
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