From: "Roger Heflin" <rheflin@atipa.com>
To: "'linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)'" <linux-os@analogic.com>,
"'Christopher Friesen'" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: FAT and Microsoft patent?
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:52:34 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EXCHG2003RXf2LTrpwA00000b29@EXCHG2003.microtech-ks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0601111026300.27240@chaos.analogic.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
> [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of
> linux-os (Dick Johnson)
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 9:32 AM
> To: Christopher Friesen
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: FAT and Microsoft patent?
>
>
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, 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
>
> You mean the expired patent circa 1980 for their first use of
> this technology? This is 2006, 26 years later. Patents don't
> run forever, you know. That's the reason why it has become
> the 'universal' file- system, not because it's a good
> file-system, but because it's now in the public domain due to
> expiration.
>
> And, can you cite the 'various sources'. They seem to be like
> spooks under the bridge, completely without merit.
The patent upheld is for long filenames on a FAT filesystem, not
for FAT in general.
Not a major thing to go without.
It would be nice it the original poster would have done 30 seconds
more research before posting.
Roger
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-11 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-11 14:59 FAT and Microsoft patent? Christopher Friesen
2006-01-11 15:31 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-01-11 15:43 ` Ram Gupta
2006-01-11 15:46 ` Christopher Friesen
2006-01-11 15:59 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-01-11 15:52 ` Roger Heflin [this message]
2006-01-11 15:49 ` Christopher Friesen
2006-01-11 15:57 ` Antonio Vargas
2006-01-11 17:48 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-11 16:12 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-11 17:13 ` Rik van Riel
2006-01-11 17:20 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-01-11 15:51 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-01-11 15:35 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-11 15:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-11 18:47 ` Jeff V. Merkey
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