Devices such as digital cameras and modern mobile phones need a (simple) file system. Microsoft has FAT and Microsoft demands royalties. It's good business practice. You get revenue without really doing much work ;-)
Casper
-----Original Message----- From: ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org [mailto:ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org] On Behalf Of TwoTailedFox Sent: 11. januar 2006 13:06 To: ReactOS Development List Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Patent on FAT
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.