linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, 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
You mean the expired patent circa 1980 for their first use of this
technology?
No, I mean the three listed on Microsoft's website:
# U.S. Patent #5,579,517 "Common name space for long and short
filenames" Nov 26, 1996
# U.S. Patent #5,758,352 "Common name space for long and short
filenames" May 26, 1998
# U.S. Patent #6,286,013 "Method and system for providing a common name
space for long and short file names in an operating system" September 4,
2001
Chris
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