[ros-dev] Patent on FAT

[Richard]

Disregarding the patent will eventually get noticed.  Microsoft would 
not hesitate to sue this project.

Wesley Parish wrote:

>On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 03:16, Simon Cornelius P. Umacob wrote:
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>>Richard wrote:
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>>> Which would you rather have, pay a
>>>small fee to use the patented features or not use the patented features
>>>at all?
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>>Fight or disregard the patent? :)
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>We should ask the FSF for their opinion on this matter - I think Moglen's 
>likely to come up with some better ideas than I for one, can come up with.
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>And as I said, the idea of long file names - hidden in a separate file - was 
>in use for at least 5 years before Microsoft came out with MS Win95.  So the 
>patent is bogus, fraudulent and more an attempt to bail people up like 
>highwaymen and rob them than anything to do with legitimate business.
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>Talk to Moglen - this is what he's trained for, after all.
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>Wesley Parish
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