Re: [ros-dev] Patent on FAT

[Wesley Parish]

The joke is that LFN as developed and used in MS Win9x and so on, was already 
a part of WordPerfect 5.1 - and WordPerfect is the favourite word processor 
of Legal Offices.  And WordPerfect 5.1 was in public use at least five years 
before Microsoft brought out their (in)famous MS Win95 - "You make a grown 
man cry!"

If the worst comes to the worst, there's plenty of room on this jugular to go 
for.

Wesley Parish

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 00:18, Murphy, Ged (Bolton) wrote:
>   I'm reading reports of a US patent on FAT.
>  What's going on and how will this effect us?
>
>  The US patent rules are seriously out of control :(
>
>  Ged
>
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