Re: FAT and Microsoft patent?

[Rik van Riel]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Christopher Friesen wrote:

> The question still holds in modified form...will we need to remove this 
> functionality, or is it currently implemented in a way that does not 
> infringe on the patent?

I would not be surprised if the UMSDOS filesystem predated
VFAT by a few years - but this was all quite a while ago,
and I'm not sure the patents cover something that UMSDOS
could have prior art on...

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