[plug] M$ to patent FAT and charge for it

[Cameron Patrick]

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 12:34:13PM +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:

| http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/tech/fat.asp

Hmm, this was mentioned on a Debian ML this morning, too.  Hmm.  *looks
at Slashdot*  Ahh, now I understand :-)

http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200312/msg00023.html

The patents mentioned sound as though they aren't on FAT itself, but on
the file name mangling that Windows 9x did with it.

Cameron.