Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:57:41 +0100 | From | Antonio Vargas <> | Subject | Re: FAT and Microsoft patent? |
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On 1/11/06, Christopher Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com> wrote: > Roger Heflin wrote: > > > The patent upheld is for long filenames on a FAT filesystem, not > > for FAT in general. > > It appears that Microsoft specifically lists three patents, but they're > all related to long filenames. > > > Not a major thing to go without. > > True. > > > It would be nice it the original poster would have done 30 seconds > > more research before posting. > > 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? > > Chris
The linux-kernel implementation could be argued to be needed for inter-operation with a parallel install of windows on a dual boot machine ;)
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