AVR-Chat

How about the old DOS program "Golden Retriever?"  It would seem that 
would blow their claim out of the water.

REB

Bernd Felsche wrote:

>On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 02:15:16AM +0100, Jesper Hansen wrote:
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>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "Bernd Felsche" <bernie@innovative.iinet.net.au>
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>>>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
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>>>5,579,517 November 26, 1996
>>>Common name space for long and short filenames
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>>>5,745,902 April 28, 1998 
>>>Method and system for accessing a file using file names
>>>having different file name formats
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>>>5,758,352 May 26, 1998 
>>>Common name space for long and short filenames
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>>>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
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>>Would this mean that as I'm using only short names in the FAT
>>filesystems in my MP3 players, I'm not affected by this ?
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>That would seem to be the case. I've not studied the Patents in
>detail; but they appear to be related solely to long filenames as
>the first appeared in Win95. It's interesting to initially follow up
>on the refernce Patents that go back to AT&T and G.E.
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>>Anyway, at $0.25 per unit, they wouldn't get much more than enough for 
>>a few cups of coffee ;-)
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>For every Microsoft minion. Maximum claim against any drive
>manufacturer is USD$250,000.
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>High time for manufacturers to adopt an unencumbered filesystem
>(e.g. ext2)
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