Re: [Freedos-kernel] Microsoft beginning to assert FAT Patent

2004-04-20 Thread Alain
Steve Gibson escreveu: Sorry Arkady, I'm not subscribed to that, so I didn't know. :( I recomend that you subscribe to both. They are in fact somehow conplementary... Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Lin

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Microsoft beginning to assert FAT Patent

2004-04-20 Thread Steve Gibson
SG> The Public Patent Foundation has submitted a request to SG> the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to SG> reexamine patent 5,579,517, awarded Is my post in freedos-devel with the same news not arrive there some days ago? Sorry Arkady, I'm not subscribed to that, so I didn't know

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Microsoft beginning to assert FAT Patent

2004-04-20 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 20-Апр-2004 11:23 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Gibson) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SG> The Public Patent Foundation has submitted a request to the United States SG> Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to reexamine patent 5,579,517, awarded Is my post in freedos-devel with the same news not

[Freedos-kernel] Microsoft beginning to assert FAT Patent

2004-04-20 Thread Steve Gibson
Folks, The news that Microsoft is starting to assert their FAT patent rights came as unwelcome news. I doubt that it will affect FreeDOS since it appears that some good guys are working to show prior art and get the patent(s) overturned. So it will hopefully amount to nothing ... Title: Advoc