Fedora Core 2 wishlists

[Antonio Buiza Calero]

El Miércoles 17 Diciembre 2003 19:36, Thomas Dodd escribió:
> Vic Gedris wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:19:45PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> >>On Dec 17, 2003, Tyler larson <fedora-devel at tlarson.com> wrote:
> >>>FAT is patented my Microsoft
> >>
> >>Some FAT extensions are.  The FAT filesystem format in general isn't,
> >>AFAIK.
> >
> > Information from the source:
> > http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/tech/fat.asp
>
> Anyone know the dates on those patents?
>
> My old Atari ST computer used FAT on floppies. I think Amiga did to.
> Were these patents liscensed by Atari/Commodore? Did they even exist then?
>
> Then again, what the hell is patentable in a filesystem. Man, the USPTO
> really needs to stop patenting theis crap, and invalidate a lot of bogus
> junk they granted.

I think those patents only apply in the US as software patents aren't valid in 
Europe and most part of the world. So if finally FAT support is removed from 
Fedora you should consider including it as an extra (are there non-US 
packages in Fedora?).

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Antonio Buiza Calero
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