On Tue, 05 May 2009 20:39:05 +0930, David Newall said: > Whether your patch goes in; whether it doesn't; it now seems there's > something fishy about long filenames, and to be safe, perhaps it would > be better to just turn off anything to do with FAT filesystems. Who > would care, right? Unless i turns out that Linux no longer has the > essential features. > > Unless disrupting Linux was the point, and of course it isn't, it seems > that full disclosure is required. And that's before any patch should > even be looked at. Well, VFAT was in Windows for Workgroups 3.11 or so, back in 1982, and a patent only runs 17 years. So that clock's been ticking for quite some time. Heck, one could probably make a case that if Microsoft hasn't officially squawked *yet* about code that infringes on anything that was released in '82, that they've basically estoppell'd themselves. Of course, some spoil-sport is going to come along and say that submarine patents don't work that way. ;)
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