From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Vier Subject: Re: implementing reiserfs in C++ for a new OS Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:22:07 -0400 Message-ID: <20040811232207.GB18105@zero> References: <20040810211951.GU1284@nysv.org> <41194690.5050908@namesys.com> <1365645117.20040811065416@tnonline.net> <20040811073959.GV1284@nysv.org> <4119D468.8080104@futuretg.com> <20040811090033.GX1284@nysv.org> <4119EA9B.7090503@futuretg.com> <20040811105442.GY1284@nysv.org> <411A0D42.8020204@futuretg.com> <20040811123909.GZ1284@nysv.org> Reply-To: Tom Vier Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040811123909.GZ1284@nysv.org> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 03:39:09PM +0300, Markus T?rnqvist wrote: > But look at the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and others. > USA was supposed to be the land of the free, now it's the land of the > rich and powerful, where some people are more free than others and some > people are more equal than others. i hate the dmca as much as anyone, but wealth (money or resources) means more "freedom" everywhere. it means the freedom to take more risks, make more investments (thereby allowing you to pay people to make things to patent, for example). but this is a little offtopic. 8) on topic: hans, they have every right to reimpliment reiserfs3. but, it MUST be done in a clean fashion, like ibm's bios was reimplimented, unless they want get a license from you (either the gpl, or another). -- Tom Vier DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE