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Special Forums News, Links, Events and Announcements IBM Releases 500 Software Patents Post 60194 by locustfurnace on Wednesday 12th of January 2005 07:51:07 PM

01-12-2005

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Who are we supposed to then feel sorry for? The IRS- for lost "revenues," or for the Big Company's?
Personally, I feel if the Big Company's do this for tax relief, thats great news for them. They spent the money developing the patents, the IRS did none except stick out their palms demanding people cough up money.

IBM has some 40k patents, them kicking out a mere 500, whether or not it will advance open source may be a good thing. IBM has been a strong supporter of LINUX development for sometime. It has definitely helped attract more eyeballs.

Big Blue, not the company it once was, still has set a strong historic mark on computing. They could be much more of a M$ than M$, if they had not released the PC architecture. Without IBM doing what they had, M$ would not be where they are today, since M$ only develops software.

Had Apple followed IBM, they may have gained a much stronger footing then they have today.

I wonder if the releasing of patents is a rub to SCO.

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chs(7D) 							      Devices								   chs(7D)

NAME

       chs - IBM ServeRAID PCI host adapter driver

DESCRIPTION

       The chs driver is the IBM ServeRAID PCI controller driver.

PRECONFIGURATION

   Known Problems and Limitations
       To  prevent  data  loss,  a  SCSI disk drive that is not defined as part of any physical pack within a logical drive will not be accessible
       through the Solaris operating environment.

CONFIGURATION

       Auto-configuration code determines whether the adapter is present at the configured address and what types of devices are attached  to  it.
       The IBM ServeRAID is primarily used as a disk array (system drive) controller.

       To  configure the attached disk arrays, you must configure the controller (using the configuration utilities provided by the hardware manu-
       facturer) before booting the Solaris operating environment You use the configuration utilities to set RAID levels, stripe parameters, cache
       mechanisms and perform other functions. For more information, see the user manual supplied with your hardware.

FILES

       /kernel/drv/chs.conf	       chs configuration file

       /dev/dsk/cndn[s|p]n	       block device

       /dev/rdsk/cndn[s|p]n	       raw device where:

       cn			       controller n

       dn			       LUN n (0-7)

       sn			       UNIX system slice n (0-15)

       pn			       fdisk(1M) partition(0)

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
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SunOS 5.10							 27 November 2000							   chs(7D)