Shane M. Coughlan wrote:
Hi guys
An important heads up. Microsoft have been granted a patent on FAT.
http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=13256
This could quite seriously effect the FreeDOS project I suspect.
Shane
I hope this doesn't affect my GNU/DOS distribution either...
The
From: Daniel Quintiliani [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The new version is due out shortly (awaiting Shane's OpenGEM Complete 5
OpenGEM 5 SDK, actually), and I'd hate to see all those months of work
I put into the menu, package management, semi-automated installation,
etc. which is coming in the new version
Hi Shane and others,
http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/tech/fat.asp
is very old news. As discussed on our topica mailing
list on 5 December 2003 (yes, twok and three), the
three mentioned patents are all about long file name
processing only. MS wants money from people who build
USB memory sticks
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 03:02:09 +0100 (MET), you wrote:
Hi Eric,
do that by now), but actually it is about LFN.
Did you mean the patent is about LongFileName, not the FAT itself?
How about FAT32? It was defined by M$ and build by M$.
Rgds,
Johnson.
FWIW, LFN was an integral part of WordPerfect 5.1 - which predates MS win9x by
quite a few years.
The USPTO's just committing gratuitous fraud. Which is to say, there can be
no excuse for such malfeasance.
Wesley Parish
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:02, Eric Auer wrote:
Hi Shane and others,
Nope. LFN was an integral part of WordPerfect 5.1.
Put a mention of that in the GEM and FreeDOS documentation and mention that
WordPerfect is the inspiration - then ask the question of how Microsoft could
so radically innovate something that was already in common use by - get this
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