Messages in this thread | | | From | Alistair John Strachan <> | Subject | Re: FAT and Microsoft patent? | Date | Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:20:44 +0000 |
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On Wednesday 11 January 2006 17:13, Rik van Riel wrote: > 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...
I think the patents are on LFN, which is not VFAT, probably a lot younger, and as other people have mentioned on this thread, a lot less of a patent threat.
-- Cheers, Alistair.
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