From: "Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Roger Heflin <rheflin@atipa.com>
Cc: "'linux-os (Dick Johnson)'" <linux-os@analogic.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FAT and Microsoft patent?
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:49:16 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43C528FC.1060408@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EXCHG2003RXf2LTrpwA00000b29@EXCHG2003.microtech-ks.com>
Roger Heflin wrote:
> The patent upheld is for long filenames on a FAT filesystem, not
> for FAT in general.
It appears that Microsoft specifically lists three patents, but they're
all related to long filenames.
> Not a major thing to go without.
True.
> It would be nice it the original poster would have done 30 seconds
> more research before posting.
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?
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-11 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-11 14:59 FAT and Microsoft patent? Christopher Friesen
2006-01-11 15:31 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-01-11 15:43 ` Ram Gupta
2006-01-11 15:46 ` Christopher Friesen
2006-01-11 15:59 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-01-11 15:52 ` Roger Heflin
2006-01-11 15:49 ` Christopher Friesen [this message]
2006-01-11 15:57 ` Antonio Vargas
2006-01-11 17:48 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-11 16:12 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-11 17:13 ` Rik van Riel
2006-01-11 17:20 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-01-11 15:51 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-01-11 15:35 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-11 15:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-11 18:47 ` Jeff V. Merkey
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