Ouch!

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Roger Heflin wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Paul F. Johnson
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 8:30 AM
> > To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> > Subject: Ouch!
> >
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/11/microsoft_wins_patent_case/
> >
> > Looks like fat support may have to be slimmed down :-(
>
> The patent is only the one for longer file names on FAT filesystems.
>
> It is not a patent for FAT in general.

um ... so the concept of supporting longer filenames qualifies as
"novel and non-obvious?"  really?

rday