From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com>
To: Christopher Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FAT and Microsoft patent?
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:47:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43C552A4.2060307@wolfmountaingroup.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43C51D65.3030309@nortel.com>
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?
>
> Chris
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This also affects DRDOS. I will notify folks about this.
Jeff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-11 20:31 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
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 [this message]
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