Re: [Freedos-user] Patent granted on FAT

2006-01-11 Thread Tom Lee Mullins
Shane M. Coughlan wrote: Hi guys An important heads up. Microsoft have been granted a patent on FAT. http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=13256 This could quite seriously effect the FreeDOS project I suspect. Shane http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6025447.html also at the link above.

Re: [Freedos-user] Patent granted on FAT

2006-01-10 Thread Wesley Parish
Nope. LFN was an integral part of WordPerfect 5.1. Put a mention of that in the GEM and FreeDOS documentation and mention that WordPerfect is the inspiration - then ask the question of how Microsoft could so radically innovate something that was already in common use by - get this - Legal Offi

Re: [Freedos-user] Patent granted on FAT

2006-01-10 Thread Shane Coughlan
From: Daniel Quintiliani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The new version is due out shortly (awaiting Shane's OpenGEM Complete 5 & OpenGEM 5 SDK, actually), and I'd hate to see all those months of work I put into the menu, package management, semi-automated installation, etc. which is coming in the new versio

Re: [Freedos-user] Patent granted on FAT

2006-01-10 Thread Daniel Quintiliani
Shane M. Coughlan wrote: > Hi guys > > An important heads up. Microsoft have been granted a patent on FAT. > > http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=13256 > > This could quite seriously effect the FreeDOS project I suspect. > > Shane I hope this doesn't affect my GNU/DOS distribution either...

[Freedos-user] Patent granted on FAT

2006-01-10 Thread Shane M. Coughlan
Hi guys An important heads up. Microsoft have been granted a patent on FAT. http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=13256 This could quite seriously effect the FreeDOS project I suspect. Shane -- Shane Martin Coughlan e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] m: +447773180107 w: www.shaneland.co.uk --- Projects: htt