Re: FAT and Microsoft patent?

[Alistair John Strachan]

On Wednesday 11 January 2006 17:13, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Christopher Friesen wrote:
> > The question still holds in modified form...will we need to remove this
> > functionality, or is it currently implemented in a way that does not
> > infringe on the patent?
>
> I would not be surprised if the UMSDOS filesystem predated
> VFAT by a few years - but this was all quite a while ago,
> and I'm not sure the patents cover something that UMSDOS
> could have prior art on...

I think the patents are on LFN, which is not VFAT, probably a lot younger, and 
as other people have mentioned on this thread, a lot less of a patent threat.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.'
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
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