I heard from a former Sun executive that Apple wanted indemnification following netapp's lawsuit. They had spent a long time negotiating over that before they h

I heard from a former Sun executive that Apple wanted indemnification following netapp's lawsuit. They had spent a long time negotiating over that before they had something mutually acceptable and it was supposed to be signed the day Oracle's acquisition of Sun finished. That left it up to Larry Elison, who refused to sign it and Apple decided to try its luck improving HFS+.