Microsoft would be suicidal to attempt to enforce the patent, given its
already tenuous antitrust situation.
On 1/12/06, Richard Morgan <rmorgan@heavysystems.com> wrote:
>
> This has really cast a dark cloud over the Open Source community and shows
> how a
> company like Microsoft can stifle the marketplace by restricting the use
> of FAT
> (especially with such a widespread technology). I don't understand how
> Microsoft could possibly get a patent for something that has been used for
> the
> last 20 years by the whole computer industry. IANAL.
>
> I know that my digital camera and PDA uses FAT for the flash storage
> devices
> which I also use with Linux and I'm concerned with Microsoft using this
> patent
> to prevent this HUGE market from being used with Linux.
>
> Anyway, I downloaded ext2 drivers for my Windows machines last night...
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Richard Morgan
> Heavy Systems Administrator
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