[OpenAFS] Announce: January 2005 OpenAFS for Windows status report

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, ted creedon wrote:

> The concept of using volumes (especially disconnected)is unique. That
> implies at least under the copyright law should MS rip yet another
> innovative idea.

Well, someone claims a patent on disconnected operation. Of course, they 
filed it *after* the Citi folks had already done disconnected AFS, but 
patent law is no longer about fact, only money.