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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Dec 4, 2003 7:03 PM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
