Le 5 D??cembre 2003 18:21, James Knott a ??crit :
cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org wrote:
As the title says. Impact on Linux ?
If the claims are true, that there are "live" patents still in place on FAT, then it is conceivable that there might be patent infringments, or at least places where MSFT could _claim_ that there are.
Of course, FAT is pretty much derivative of CP/M filesystems, so it is more than likely that any conceivable patents would have to have been filed in the '80s, and thus would have, at most, 3 more years to run.
The only place I use FAT, is on systems that also run Windows. So, if those partitions are created by Windows and just happen to be accessed by Linux, would that be a patent violation?
I heard that the swap filesystem is build from FAT. Is that true?
No, certainly not. Whomever said that was speaking ignorant nonsense. A swap partition has a much more minimal structure than FAT offers. -- let name="cbbrowne" and tld="ntlug.org" in name ^ "@" ^ tld;; http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/x.html "Utter masochists can inspect the handbook in the main Computer Laboratory library and admire its collection of references to the primary literature and for its price (last seen as comfortably over #100)." -- Arthur Norman -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml