Re: [Freedos-kernel] Microsoft beginning to assert FAT Patent
Steve Gibson escreveu: Sorry Arkady, I'm not subscribed to that, so I didn't know. :( I recomend that you subscribe to both. They are in fact somehow conplementary... Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Freedos-kernel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
Re: [Freedos-kernel] Microsoft beginning to assert FAT Patent
SG> The Public Patent Foundation has submitted a request to SG> the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to SG> reexamine patent 5,579,517, awarded Is my post in freedos-devel with the same news not arrive there some days ago? Sorry Arkady, I'm not subscribed to that, so I didn't know. :( --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Freedos-kernel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
Re: [Freedos-kernel] Microsoft beginning to assert FAT Patent
Hi! 20-Апр-2004 11:23 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Gibson) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SG> The Public Patent Foundation has submitted a request to the United States SG> Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to reexamine patent 5,579,517, awarded Is my post in freedos-devel with the same news not arrive there some days ago? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click ___ Freedos-kernel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
[Freedos-kernel] Microsoft beginning to assert FAT Patent
Folks, The news that Microsoft is starting to assert their FAT patent rights came as unwelcome news. I doubt that it will affect FreeDOS since it appears that some good guys are working to show prior art and get the patent(s) overturned. So it will hopefully amount to nothing ... Title: Advocacy Group Goes After Microsoft's FAT patent Source: EWeek.com Date Written: April 16, 2004 Date Collected: April 19, 2004 The Public Patent Foundation has submitted a request to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to reexamine patent 5,579,517, awarded to Microsoft for its File Allocation Table (FAT) file system. The foundation alleges that FAT is invalid, citing three examples of prior art, and that the patent causes public injury by stifling competition. Microsoft has yet to review the request, but says it is unfamiliar with the Public Patent Foundation, questions their choice of patent to challenge, and notes that the company offers licenses for the FAT file system to anyone, including open source companies. Microsoft offers FAT licenses at 25 cents per device with a cap of $250,000. Public Patent Foundation founder and executive director Dan Ravicher says that charging for the license excludes free and open software groups from obtaining a license. The Public Patent Foundation's mission is to protect the public from wrongly issued patents and unsound patent policy. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1569534,00.asp __ Steve. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Freedos-kernel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
