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451 Group: Microsoft suing TomTom, not Linux, not open source

451 Group: Microsoft suing TomTom, not Linux, not open source

Posted Feb 27, 2009 21:07 UTC (Fri) by proski (subscriber, #104)
In reply to: 451 Group: Microsoft suing TomTom, not Linux, not open source by njd27
Parent article: 451 Group: Microsoft suing TomTom, not Linux, not open source

I wonder if it's possible to make a patent free VFAT implementation that never creates legacy entries. Who really cares about DOS now? It's not like users are likely to access their SD cards in DOS.

Sure, it would be better to defeat Microsoft, but having a fallback solution could be useful. Other hardware manufacturers would be more at ease using a patent-free implementation.


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