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From: David Brown <mtd@davidb.org>
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On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 05:32:34PM +0200, Matthias Fuchs wrote:

>Or with other words, does a translation layer (we would also call it
>differently) that allows using things like ext3 on a bare NAND chip
>conflict with any patents?

I'm going to guess that most of the people who know the answer to this
question won't be able to talk about it.  Opinions from
non-legal-experts probably isn't all that useful anyway.

David