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turshija
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Rackspace accused of patent infringement for hosti...
... depend on all of the data in the data items and only on the data in the data item ... WUUUUT?
jc4p
on Sept 18, 2012
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An md5sum
VMG
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git uses SHA1
apotheon
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Well . . . use a salt and it seems this patent is trivially bypassed. Voila!
jc4p
on Sept 19, 2012
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Or use the contents of the files AND Linus's email. Then it's not just the contents of the files!
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