Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 2nd Jul 2009 16:17 UTC, submitted by lemur2
The FAT file system is the file system used by MS-DOS and earlier versions of Windows. It's a relatively simple and straightforward file system, supported by just about any operating system, making it the favoured file system on memory cards and the like. FAT is an ECMA and ISO standard, but these only apply for FAT12 and FAT16 without support for long file names, and therein lies a problem.
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This is pure speculation.
None of Microsoft's desktop technologies that have representation via a work-alikes in Linux have no prior art. Computers have been around a very long time, and Linux's basic architecture is essentially POSIX compliant, it is a work-alike of a 30-plus-year-old operating system that predates Windows by at least ten years.
The OIN and the Patent Commons have a not-insignificant patent pool themselves covering Linux workings.
Much of the underlying technologies of operating systems, such as SMP and RCU and multi-user and hierarchical directories and pipes and a myriad other things are technologies owned and invented by IBM, Novell, Sun and others, not Microsoft.
If you have not got any specific claims here, your suppositions amount to no more than bluff and bluster.