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

[Jens Collin]

What if MS descides to patent their drivers-api so that one can't create
anything that can use drivers written for Windows/their api. Then the whole
idea about driver compability is down the drain, right?
Just thought of this as an extension to the FAT patent-problem.

/ Jens

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:ros-general-bounces at reactos.com] On Behalf Of Vizzini
Sent: den 5 december 2003 18:11
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Subject: Re: [ros-general] Microsoft wants royalties for use of FAT


On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 16:03, Casper Hornstrup wrote:
> http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/tech/fat.asp

I had a discussion with a patent lawyer who confirmed that anyone who makes,
sells, offers to sell, or ***uses*** a patented invention (device, process,
etc) is infringing on that patent.

End users can and do get sued, and developers can get sued too.  You can
find examples of end-users getting sued if you search around a bit.

We need to formulate a policy as it relates to IP, probably pretty quickly.

 -Vizzini


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