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

[Kyle Behymer]

In the short term this will create more vendor lock-in with Microsoft and raise the prices for the average consumer.

In the long term, I hope this will push more manufacturers towards open standards i.e. iso9660.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Carnes <jonc at nc.rr.com>
Sent: Dec 4, 2003 7:03 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Comments? Microsoft's proposed license for FAT

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

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