AVR-Chat

On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 09:49:37AM +1030, Matthew Cook wrote:
> Seems Micro$oft is on the money grab again
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/tech/fat.asp
> 
> It seems they want to now start charging for use of their FAT file system.
> 
> Not good news...

Microsoft try to make out that that they date back to 1976.
 "The first FAT file system was developed by Microsoft in 1976"

These are the Patents which Microsoft cite further down the page.
I've take the liberty of providing the dates and the titles of the
Patents, as per www.uspto.gov

5,579,517 November 26, 1996
	Common name space for long and short filenames

5,745,902 April 28, 1998 
	Method and system for accessing a file using file names
	having different file name formats

5,758,352 May 26, 1998 
	Common name space for long and short filenames

6,286,013 September 4, 2001 
	Method and system for providing a common name space for long
	and short file names in an operating system

Make up your own mind if that indicates that Microsoft is run by a
bunch of desperate, money-grabbing sleaze-bags.

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