From: Ram Gupta <ram.gupta5@gmail.com>
To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@analogic.com>
Cc: Christopher Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FAT and Microsoft patent?
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:43:43 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <728201270601110743s469ddd60tdc05d24e33eccd7d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0601111026300.27240@chaos.analogic.com>
On 1/11/06, linux-os (Dick Johnson) <linux-os@analogic.com> wrote:
>
>
> You mean the expired patent circa 1980 for their first use of this
> technology? This is 2006, 26 years later. Patents don't run forever,
> you know. That's the reason why it has become the 'universal' file-
> system, not because it's a good file-system, but because it's now
> in the public domain due to expiration.
>
There is some discussion on eweek
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1867102,00.asp about it . It does
not seem quite settled yet.
Ram
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-11 15:43 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 [this message]
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
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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