Re: FAT and Microsoft patent?

From: Jeff V. Merkey
Date: Wed Jan 11 2006 - 15:30:31 EST


Christopher Friesen wrote:

According to various sources, the USPTO has ruled that Microsoft's patent on FAT is valid.

Does this impact Linux? Will we have to remove the filesystem?

Chris
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This also affects DRDOS. I will notify folks about this.

Jeff
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