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Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 06:44:33 -0600
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option
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On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 05:41:29AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> I am not sure that I correctly parsed these three sentences, but the
> justification should be pretty clear to anyone who has been paying any
> attention at all to recent industry news.

I think if there's one thing less reliable than an engineer's opinion
on a patent, it's a journalist's opinion on a patent lawsuit.

-- 
Matthew Wilcox				Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."