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effect on discussion

Posted Jul 1, 2009 13:26 UTC (Wed) by pjm (subscriber, #2080)
In reply to: VFAT patent avoidance and patent workarounds by nix
Parent article: VFAT patent avoidance and patent workarounds

Just to clarify, I haven't seen anyone claim that we can't discuss the *implementation* of long filenames (or scheduling or whatever other hypothetical target of patent suits), just that it's dangerous to try to discuss what things would or wouldn't infringe the patent.


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