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
disable the support.
From:
ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org [mailto:ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org] On Behalf Of Murphy, Ged (
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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