Hadron wrote: > Rex Ballard <[email protected]> writes: > >> On Mar 14, 4:06 pm, Doug Mentohl <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 'Microsoft's got a long history of licensing its File Allocation >>> Table/Long File Name (FAT LFN) with companies in the car navigation >>> space and that have specifically been using Linux and open source' >> >> Linux had LFN for FAT back in 1993. Microsoft didn't introduce it >> until Windows 95. > > Wrong. NT had it first. > >> >> Even before that was Sun PCNFS, which had it back in 1988-ish. >> >> Pat Volkerding had a fully functional LFN for FAT back in Slackware >> 1.0, allowing Linux users to use FAT file systems for Linux files. >> >> Microsoft seems not to have noticed that there are more than a few >> similarities between how Linux did it in 1993 and how Microsoft >> finally did it in 1995. Keep in mind that Microsoft's code was >> carefully guarded as trade secret, while the Linux code was published >> in source code format. The preponderance of the evidence says that it >> was Microsoft that stole from Linux, not the other way around. The >> patent should be nullified, and the code should be published as Open >> Source. >> >>> 'Microsoft's corporate vice president and deputy general counsel of >>> intellectual property and licensing Horacio Gutierrez said 18 companies >>> had signed up, including Kenwood, Alpine, and Pioneer' >> >> Just because they agreed to be part of Microsoft's "patent umbrella" >> which protects them from patent troll whiplash lawyers, doesn't >> necessarily mean that Microsoft has the right to enforce the patents. >> Quite the opposite, if the patent application was fraudulent, and >> failed to mention the pre-existing GPL code, the patent itself could >> be nullified, or awarded to the prior author. That's the ugly problem >> with Software Patents. Just because you were "first to file" doesn't >> mean that you have the right to poach other people's work. >> >> For most of 30 years, Microsoft has depended on trade secrets, >> proprietary code, copyright laws and licenses that strictly forbade >> reverse engineering of code. > > Uh huh. > > So Wine is a figment of our imagination eh Rexx "Kingmaker" Ballard?
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