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Date:	Sat, 6 Dec 2003 12:53:08 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: M$ is willing to let others use FAT file system for a "reasonable" fee.

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In <3FD23930.70AB@peterskye.com>, on 12/06/03
at 12:16 PM, Peter Skye said:

>I'm not familiar with the browser plug-in patents. Did someone find
>"prior art"?

Google for:

microsoft browser plugin patent infringement

It was "big" news last month. It's actually a UC patent and Eolas
Technologies paid UC for exclusivie right to relicense or something like
that.

>I suspect they're still trying to cut Linux off at its knees. It's
>possible they'll also go after any 3rd-party FAT32 OS/2 driver.

They also mentioned certain media devices. I assume this means set top
boxes not running MS OSs.

>I never had the time to compare the common files systems. Someone told
>me once that you can fork a file under Unix but I don't understand the
>concept (I understand forking a process, but a file?).

That's wierd terminology. Maybe someone made it up. Unix supports links,
both hard and symbolic, but this is totally unrelated to forking. Maybe
someone was confusing the terms?

>IBM has a patent on HTML formatted error messages? Cute. I did get a
>kick out of an IBM patent I read a few years ago which was for setting or
>clearing a bit to indicate whether or not the kernel had done something.

I wonder what the licensing fee for this is?

Regards,

Steven

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