Friday, 27 February 2009

Microsoft suit over FAT patents could open OSS Pandoras Box

Microsoft has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against TomTom alleging that the device maker's products, including some that are Linux-based, infringe on patents related to Microsoft's FAT32 filesystem.

This marks the first time that Microsoft has enforced its FAT patents against the Linux platform, a move that some free software advocates have

Read the full story here:
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/02/microsoft-sues-tomtom-over-fat-patents-in-linux-based-device.ars

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