[TriLUG] Comments? Microsoft's proposed license for FAT

[Jon Carnes]

On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 21:20, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> FAT File System Technology and Patent License
> 
> December 3, 2003
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/tech/fat.asp
> 
> Comments?
> 
> ap
> 

I read that yesterday.  They aren't really patenting FAT (they can't -
it was part of CPM and open to the public), but they do have some
patents on File name munging that are related to FAT.  All in all, I
thought it was much ado about nothing.

Jon Carnes