Re: FAT and Microsoft patent?

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 08:59 -0600, Christopher Friesen wrote:
> According to various sources, the USPTO has ruled that Microsoft's 
> patent on FAT is valid.
> 
> Does this impact Linux?  Will we have to remove the filesystem?

this only impacts people who took a license, since then section 7 of the
GPL forbids distribution of linux by those people ;)


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