Re: EMC Patent

[Nat Lanza <magus@cs.cmu.edu>]

"Douglas Otis" <dotis@sanlight.net> writes:

> http://www.delphion.com/cgi-bin/viewpat.cmd/US05996024__

Hmm.

While discussing this, a colleague mentioned Stalker Software's
SCSIShare, which is a MacOS utility that appears to do pretty much
what this patent describes, except over LocalTalk instead of IP.

http://www.stalker.com/SCSIShare/

Stalker advertises it as a way to share SCSI scanners across a local
network, and mentions that it shouldn't be used to share disks because
of data consistency problems.

Also, Stalker started selling SCSIShare at least eight years ago --
their documentation claims '(c) 1992-98 Stalker Software, Inc.'. EMC's
patent application date is early 1998, so this predates it by at least
six years plus development time.


--nat

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