This stinks of Market Saturation.
Microsoft floods the market with a free File System, used in practically everything, fro Camera's, Memory Sticks, and of course, Operating Systems such as Linux and ReactOS.
Trying to enforce a patent 20 years after the software was developed should not be allowed. Then again, this is a US Patent, so no other countries are affected by this.
On 1/11/06, Casper Hornstrup ch@eudicon.com wrote:
The patent is about storing short and long filenames on the same volume.
In theory ReactOS violates that patent, but the patent has yet to be proven
valid (as with many other technology patents). To fix it, we can make the
support for this optional, so people in countries who honour US patents can
disable the support.
Casper
From: ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org [mailto:ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org] On Behalf Of Murphy, Ged (Bolton) Sent: 11. januar 2006 12:19 To: 'ros-dev@reactos.org' Subject: [ros-dev] Patent on FAT
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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