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No Software Patent

No Software Patent

Posted May 5, 2009 14:34 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: No Software Patent by patrick_g
Parent article: Long discussions about long names

Well..

A) Most countries are not the USA, but most developed countries have patent treaties with the USA. Most companies producing software and hardware have USA as a big hunk of their target market.

B) The discussion coming from IBM and friends is adding a kernel option to disable long file name write support. Nobody is talking about eliminating it completely or by default.


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