Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750710AbWAKPtZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:49:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751158AbWAKPtZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:49:25 -0500 Received: from zcars04f.nortel.com ([47.129.242.57]:32927 "EHLO zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750710AbWAKPtY (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:49:24 -0500 Message-ID: <43C528FC.1060408@nortel.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:49:16 -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: Roger Heflin CC: "'linux-os (Dick Johnson)'" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: FAT and Microsoft patent? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Jan 2006 15:49:18.0013 (UTC) FILETIME=[94A9CED0:01C616C6] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 779 Lines: 25 Roger Heflin wrote: > The patent upheld is for long filenames on a FAT filesystem, not > for FAT in general. It appears that Microsoft specifically lists three patents, but they're all related to long filenames. > Not a major thing to go without. True. > It would be nice it the original poster would have done 30 seconds > more research before posting. The question still holds in modified form...will we need to remove this functionality, or is it currently implemented in a way that does not infringe on the patent? 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/