On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:51:10PM -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote: > On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 08:52 -0400, Lyos Gemini Norezel wrote: > > It seems awfully wasteful carrying a million or more copies of the > > same blasted license file, > > in a million or more locations in the OS. > > When the hell are we going to get copy-on-write files on Linux? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_instance_storage > > ... Oh wait, MS patented it. Wow, talk about patenting the obvious ... Masses of prior art in the functional programming world anyhow, so I wouldn't worry about this patent. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
