From: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Christopher Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>,
Roger Heflin <rheflin@atipa.com>,
"'linux-os (Dick Johnson)'" <linux-os@analogic.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FAT and Microsoft patent?
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:20:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601111720.44759.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0601111212020.5975@cuia.boston.redhat.com>
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 17:13, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Christopher Friesen wrote:
> > The question still holds in modified form...will we need to remove this
> > functionality, or is it currently implemented in a way that does not
> > infringe on the patent?
>
> I would not be surprised if the UMSDOS filesystem predated
> VFAT by a few years - but this was all quite a while ago,
> and I'm not sure the patents cover something that UMSDOS
> could have prior art on...
I think the patents are on LFN, which is not VFAT, probably a lot younger, and
as other people have mentioned on this thread, a lot less of a patent threat.
--
Cheers,
Alistair.
'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.'
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-11 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-11 14:59 Christopher Friesen
2006-01-11 15:31 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-01-11 15:43 ` Ram Gupta
2006-01-11 15:46 ` Christopher Friesen
2006-01-11 15:59 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-01-11 15:52 ` Roger Heflin
2006-01-11 15:49 ` Christopher Friesen
2006-01-11 15:57 ` Antonio Vargas
2006-01-11 17:48 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-11 16:12 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-11 17:13 ` Rik van Riel
2006-01-11 17:20 ` Alistair John Strachan [this message]
2006-01-11 15:51 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-01-11 15:35 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-11 15:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-11 18:47 ` Jeff V. Merkey
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