[gNewSense-users] FAT patents

[Chris Andrew]

All,

I picked this up from the Gobuntu list.  May be worthy of consideration.

Cheers,

Chris.

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From: 
Markus Laire <address@hidden>
Date: 27-Jul-2007 11:44
Subject: Re: FAT patents (was Re: Patents)
To: 
Cc: address@hidden

On 7/27/07, Keith G. Robertson-Turner
<address@hidden> wrote:
> > it will need to remove everything, including Emacs, and evaporate.
>
> No. Just Mono, and any other Microsoft technology.

What about FAT (especially long filename support) which is patented
Microsoft technology?

According to Wikipedia [1], at least long filenames in FAT seems to be
patented, so should that be removed from gobuntu?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#FAT_licensing

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Markus Laire

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