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Date:	Sat, 6 Dec 2003 10:00:06 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: M$ is willing to let others use FAT file system for a "reasonable" fee.

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In <3FD14D7E.4377@peterskye.com>, on 12/05/03
at 07:31 PM, Peter Skye said:

>I just read the four patents cited in the above link. They concern the
>method of using both a "short" (8.3) filename plus a "long" filename in
>the filename directory structure. Using two different names for the same
>file is their "invention" which they want to license for a fee.

One always wonders what triggered this page to be created. One could
guess it's a response to MS's recent problems wrt the browser plug-in
patents.

All that remains now is to see how proactive is going after anyone that
implements FAT32 compatible FSs for other platforms.

One this is for sure, it seems that these days one can patent almost
anything if one is willing to spend the money on the paperwork. IBM has a
patent on outputting error messages in HTML format.

Regards,

Steven

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