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The boots on the other foot! #

By Che Kristo Posted Tuesday 7th October 2008 12:48 GMT

There is nothing better than seeing a patent aggressor cop it - hopefully Netapp lose out big time on this and learn a lesson.

Sun is on its death bed and grasping at straws #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Tuesday 7th October 2008 13:04 GMT

If three years ago a company had $7.4B of cash on hand, but now its entire market cap has

fallen to $4.7B, how much confidence would you have in the management?

Light my fire

This just in, from the Department of Redundancy Department #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Tuesday 7th October 2008 13:11 GMT

>"The pre-trial hearings form the second strand. They "establish the meaning of key terms in disputed patents", Sun's general counsel, Mike Dillon, says.

>The judge carrying out pre-trial hearings has effectively invalidated a second NetApp patent, Dillon said in his blog. He added that these pre-trial hearings "establish the meaning of key terms in disputed patents". "

Also, he said that these pre-trial hearings "establish the meaning of key terms in disputed patents". Film at 11 and also at 11.

WAFL #

By Peter Bradley Posted Tuesday 7th October 2008 13:14 GMT

No. They can't have that. Sorry and all that, but my wife and I invented WAFL when my wife first took up the teaching of Welsh to adults. It stands for Welsh As a Foreign Language and is designed to be equivalent to the English TEFL. We also own TWADL (Teaching Welsh As a Dead Language).

Rhybudd joc rhag ofn bod aelodau CIG yn monitro'r Register.

Hwyl

P

Sun may be on their death bed #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Tuesday 7th October 2008 15:05 GMT

But I do love seeing someone hand a smackin' out to NetApp and take 'em down a notch. Does my heart good. Hopefully the chance of seeing "vital" patents invalidated during a lawsuit will tend to put a brake on this sort of thing.

Grasping at straws. Huh? #

By Brian Utterback Posted Tuesday 7th October 2008 16:58 GMT

Quoth "Anonymous coward":

>Sun is on its death bed and grasping at straws

What does that even mean in this context? Defending itself in court against a law suit is "grasping at straws"? That doesn't make any sense. Are you saying that if they weren't grasping at straws, then they wouldn't have defended themselves?

REmoving redundancy. Removing redundancy. Remov.... #

By Chris Mellor Posted Tuesday 7th October 2008 17:38 GMT

Bah. A snivelling sneezing flue/cold and I repeat myself in the story. Yuck. My office looks like a face tissue landfill and I'm suffering a nasal Niagara. Sniff. I've removed the redundant section and offer grovelling aplogies.

Chris.

Sun on its deathbed ... #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Tuesday 7th October 2008 20:36 GMT

Nice one MB - what is really great is that all this innovation that Sun has freely dished out to the market all these years will then disappear and you will be back in the Mainframe age where you are dependent on the Big Guys and their extrotion - enjoy!!!

Lets see how bright your fire burns then ...