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FAT patent

FAT patent

Posted Feb 26, 2009 20:08 UTC (Thu) by dufkaf (subscriber, #10358)
In reply to: FAT patent by klaasjan
Parent article: Microsoft sues TomTom

You're right, completely forgot about this. But still, aren't those patents about methods of _writing_ long and short file names? Once it is so cleverly and innovativelly written you just read it, no space for creativity there. Would a read only driver violate patent too?


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