From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964830AbWAKUbx (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:31:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964826AbWAKUbw (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:31:52 -0500 Received: from master.soleranetworks.com ([67.137.28.188]:11931 "EHLO master.soleranetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964830AbWAKUbw (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:31:52 -0500 Message-ID: <43C552A4.2060307@wolfmountaingroup.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:47:00 -0700 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christopher Friesen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: FAT and Microsoft patent? References: <43C51D65.3030309@nortel.com> In-Reply-To: <43C51D65.3030309@nortel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > This also affects DRDOS. I will notify folks about this. Jeff