Re: FAT and Microsoft patent?

[Ram Gupta]

On 1/11/06, linux-os (Dick Johnson) <linux-os@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>

>
> You mean the expired patent circa 1980 for their first use of this
> technology? This is 2006, 26 years later. Patents don't run forever,
> you know. That's the reason why it has become the 'universal' file-
> system, not because it's a good file-system, but because it's now
> in the public domain due to expiration.
>

There is some discussion on eweek
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1867102,00.asp about it . It does
not seem quite settled yet.

Ram
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