Slashdot has an article Microsoft FAT Patent Upheld
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/11/0555252tid=155tid=109
The discussion also links to the page FAT File System Technology License
http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/tech/fat.asp
Does anyone know if this is a problem for FreeDOS or
Markus Laire wrote:
Slashdot has an article Microsoft FAT Patent Upheld
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/11/0555252tid=155tid=109
The discussion also links to the page FAT File System Technology License
http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/tech/fat.asp
Does anyone know if this is a
I started looking more into the patents in question, and I'm not really
concerned with respect to FreeDOS. The 3 patents listed on
http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/tech/fat.asp are:
* U.S. Patent #5,579,517
Common name space for long and short filenames
* U.S. Patent #5,758,352
Common
If something ever were to come up to restrict FreeDOS support for FAT,
it would always be possible to implement another filesystem, such as
LeanFS or ext2.
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