10 Dec
2003
10 Dec
'03
12:17 p.m.
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 05:18:16PM -0800, Wierd Wierd wrote:
What is
the legal status of HPFS- I know it was
designed by microsoft, but from what I understand, IBM
owns IP rights-- Is the patent on it still valid, and
enforceable? If not, then it might be something to
look at. You might be able to take HPFS, and modify
it to store DOS short names, for the benefit of the
DOS subsystem later on. I think IBM would be less
eager to sue our pants off for using an HPFS variant,
than MS would be for using a FAT or NTFS variant.
That wouldn't help as MS patented the idea of storing long and
short filenames at the same time in a filesystem.
Mark