Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751647AbWAKO7z (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:59:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751650AbWAKO7z (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:59:55 -0500 Received: from zrtps0kn.nortel.com ([47.140.192.55]:53206 "EHLO zrtps0kn.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751647AbWAKO7z (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:59:55 -0500 Message-ID: <43C51D65.3030309@nortel.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 08:59:49 -0600 From: "Christopher Friesen" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: FAT and Microsoft patent? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Jan 2006 14:59:51.0282 (UTC) FILETIME=[AC5A9520:01C616BF] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 408 Lines: 11 According to various sources, the USPTO has ruled that Microsoft's patent on FAT is valid. Does this impact Linux? Will we have to remove the filesystem? Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/