On 07/01/2009 01:50 PM, tridge@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi Pavel, > > We did of course consider that, and the changes to the patch to > implement collision avoidance are relatively simple. We didn't do it > as it would weaken the legal basis behind the patch. I'll leave it to > John Lanza (the LF patent attorney) to expand on that if you want more > information. > You completely lost me here. And I thought I did understand the patent and the fix. what is the difference between. short_name = rand(sid); and short_name = sid++; Now if you would do short_name = MD5(long_name); That I understand since short_name is some function of long_name but if I'm just inventing the short_name out of my hat. In what legal system does it matter what is my random function I use? > Cheers, Tridge Boaz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
