On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 12:50:20AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > How have you dealt with the patent claims which Microsoft has > asserted[1] on the exFAT file system design? > > [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/mtl/exfat-licensing.aspx > > I am not making any claims about the validity of Microsoft's patent > assertions on exFAT, one way or another. But it might be a good idea > for some laywers from the Linux Foundation to render some legal advice > to their employees (namely Greg K-H and Linus Torvalds) regarding the > advisability of taking exFAT into the official Linux tree. > > Personally, if Microsoft is going to be unfriendly about not wanting > others to use their file system technology by making patent claims, > why should we reward them by making their file system better by > improvings its interoperability? (My personal opinion only.) How does https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-open-sources-its-entire-patent-portfolio/ change your personal opinion?
