From: Martin C 

> > And what about M$ trying to patent their FAT fs?
> Is
> > that harmful or what? What do you think about
> that?
> When did they try this?

I read about it yesterday: 
http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/tech/fat.asp

> Aside from it being iffy on several other levels, 
> they *can't* patent it, because it's been more than 
> a year since it was "made public" (ie they released 
> the info programmers need to make use of it at low 
> levels). 
> 
> So unless they filed the paperwork during that year,
> they are SOL. 
We are talking about m$... I think they can do
whataever they want... They have enough lawyers...

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