[ros-general] Microsoft wants royalties for use of FAT

[Vizzini]

On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 17:07, Richard Campbell wrote:
> M$ appears to only be going after hardware manufacturers, ROS need not 
> worry for now

I think there's an alternative analysis that should be thought about
here:  MS is allowing hardware manufacturers an easy license, but is
implicitly preventing any competitive OS vendor from using FAT.  In
other words, they're saying to Apple, and in particular, Linux, that
they no longer have a right to use FAT.  We would, of course, fall into
category #2.

As to whether they hit Linux or us first, that is immaterial.  They'll
get to us eventually, and the value of the infringement will just have
had time to grow with time value...

 -Vizzini