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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	"Valdis Klētnieks" <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>,
	"Alexander Viro" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: Procedure questions - new filesystem driver..
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2019 04:21:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190709112136.GI32320@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190709045020.GB23646@mit.edu>

On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 12:50:20AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> How have you dealt with the patent claims which Microsoft has
> asserted[1] on the exFAT file system design?
> 
> [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/mtl/exfat-licensing.aspx
> 
> I am not making any claims about the validity of Microsoft's patent
> assertions on exFAT, one way or another.  But it might be a good idea
> for some laywers from the Linux Foundation to render some legal advice
> to their employees (namely Greg K-H and Linus Torvalds) regarding the
> advisability of taking exFAT into the official Linux tree.
> 
> Personally, if Microsoft is going to be unfriendly about not wanting
> others to use their file system technology by making patent claims,
> why should we reward them by making their file system better by
> improvings its interoperability?  (My personal opinion only.)

How does
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-open-sources-its-entire-patent-portfolio/
change your personal opinion?

  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-09 11:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-09  0:37 Procedure questions - new filesystem driver Valdis Klētnieks
2019-07-09  0:52 ` Al Viro
2019-07-09  0:58   ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-07-09  4:50 ` Theodore Ts'o
2019-07-09 11:21   ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2019-07-09 15:30     ` Theodore Ts'o
2019-07-09 15:48       ` exfat filesystem Matthew Wilcox
2019-07-09 16:15         ` James Bottomley
2019-07-09 16:21         ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-07-09 16:37         ` Sasha Levin
2019-07-09 17:03           ` James Bottomley
2019-07-09 16:39         ` KY Srinivasan
2019-07-09 16:50           ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-07-09 17:13             ` KY Srinivasan
2019-07-09 16:46         ` Theodore Ts'o

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