Re: [gNewSense-users] FAT patents

[Romel Sandoval]

AFAIK patents are not an issue since they are not valid on all countrys

El vie, 27-07-2007 a las 11:55 +0100, Chris Andrew escribió:
> All,
> 
> I picked this up from the Gobuntu list.  May be worthy of
> consideration.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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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