4 Dec
2003
4 Dec
'03
11:29 p.m.
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 17:07, Richard Campbell wrote:
M$ appears to only be going after hardware manufacturers, ROS need not worry for now
I think there's an alternative analysis that should be thought about here: MS is allowing hardware manufacturers an easy license, but is implicitly preventing any competitive OS vendor from using FAT. In other words, they're saying to Apple, and in particular, Linux, that they no longer have a right to use FAT. We would, of course, fall into category #2.
As to whether they hit Linux or us first, that is immaterial. They'll get to us eventually, and the value of the infringement will just have had time to grow with time value...
-Vizzini