Guestblogger Paul Coletti

Posted on February 5th, 2006 in Stuff, The one and only Merkey by paul

Hi folks and thanks to Pete for allowing me onto his excellent site. It’s only fair and proper that my first post should concern our favourite Internet Loon Jeff V. Merkey. Former NetWare coder, iguana ignorer, Torvalds annoyer and fantasist.

Jeff’s software project is called Wolf Mountain and you can find some of his software here : http://www.wolfmountaingroup.org/pub/nwfs/

A quick glance however, through some of the code reveals much NetWare-related source. How about this comment from line 8729 of nwfs1121-01.tar . . .

// Below is the method Netware uses to perform striping for multi-

// segmented volumes. the method employed by Netware is more

// efficient than raid or the block striping typical of NT and Unix,

// and is incredibly simple.

Jeff to distribute someone else’s copyrighted proprietary code . . . now surely that could never happen could it ??