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Clever Linux folk find way around Microsoft FAT file system patent
Published July 3, 2009, 5:48 am, Geek.com
Score one for Linux developers. Andrew Tridgell, one of the lead developers on the Samba project, may have developed a workaround which will bypass a Microsoft patent on the ubiquitous FAT, VFAT and FAT32 file systems. For those who don’t know, Linux comes with an Ext2, Ext3 or new Ext4 file system for its native use. [...]
New Linux patch could circumvent Microsoft's FAT patents
Published July 2, 2009, 10:24 am, Linux Today
ars Technica: "The patch, which has undergone extensive legal review by patent lawyers, could make it possible to use FAT on Linux without having to pay licensing fees to Microsoft."
Can FAT patch avoid Microsoft lawsuits?
Published July 2, 2009, 9:57 am, Desktop Linux
Andrew Tridgell has published a patch that could make the Linux implementation of the FAT filesystem impervious to Microsoft patent claims of the kind that forced a settlement from TomTom. The patch alters the VFAT code so that it does not generate both short and long filenames, says Tridgell.
New Linux patch could circumvent Microsoft's FAT patents
Published July 1, 2009, 8:12 pm, Ars Technica
Microsoft's recent lawsuit against TomTom, alleging infringement of filesystem patents, has left many questions unanswered about the legal implications of distributing open source implementations of Microsoft's FAT filesystem. A new Linux kernel patch that was published last week offers a workaround that might make it possible to continue including FAT in Linux without using methods that are ...
tridge offers a new patch to Linux's VFAT filesystem
Published June 30, 2009, 5:39 am, Linux Today
Groklaw: "tridge has done it again, offering a patch to Linux's VFAT filesystem that retains support for long names, while carefully avoiding ever having both a long and a short name for the same file."
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