[Fsf-friends] [Fwd: [Ilugc] Microsoft's FAT patent overturned]

[Ramanraj K]

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Subject: [Ilugc] Microsoft's FAT patent overturned
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:25:45 +0530 (IST)
From: Sivasankar Chander <siva@dias.ath.cx>
Reply-To: schander@mindspring.com
To: ilugc@ae.iitm.ac.in
CC: Sivasankar Chander <siva@whitebox.dias.ath.cx>

As the subject line says, Microsoft's patent on the FAT filesystem
has been overturned by the USPTO on re-examination.

http://www.pubpat.org/Microsoft_517_Rejected.htm

This is good news in embedded space, as well as for users of digicams,
mp3 players, etc., most of which make some use of the FAT filesystem.

-Siva
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