Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 30th Mar 2009 21:19 UTC
Law and Order Navigation device maker TomTom and Microsoft have resolved their patent dispute by entering into a settlement agreement out-of-court. The outcome of the agreement is that TomTom will license the infringed patents, but that they will remove the encumbered code from their implementation of the Linux kernel within two years.
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RE: A victory for M($)
by linumax on Mon 30th Mar 2009 22:12 UTC in reply to "A victory for M($)"
linumax
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2007-02-07

...they're only friendly to what makes them money and what increases their market share.


OMG! They're acting like a ... corporation!


(Maybe this will encourage SD group to abandon FAT once and for all.)

Edited 2009-03-30 22:23 UTC

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RE[2]: A victory for M($)
by John Blink on Tue 31st Mar 2009 03:35 in reply to "RE: A victory for M($)"
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2005-10-11

(Maybe this will encourage SD group to abandon FAT once and for all.)


I am glad you said that. But I hope they do it.

Doesn't Windows have a mechanism built into its architecture where you could program support for other filesystems?

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RE[3]: A victory for M($)
by PlatformAgnostic on Tue 31st Mar 2009 05:11 in reply to "RE[2]: A victory for M($)"
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2006-01-02

Yes. A few companies in fact have installable file systems for Windows. It's a daunting task to make a complete and correct filesystem, however, since there are a lot of intricate locking and pageability rules that must be obeyed by filesystem code.

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RE[3]: A victory for M($)
by sukru on Tue 31st Mar 2009 05:14 in reply to "RE[2]: A victory for M($)"
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2006-11-19

Yep we have ext2 for windows: http://www.fs-driver.org/

Also some versions of Partition Magic came with drivers for various file systems (yep you could mount them in windows).

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