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Linux's exFAT Driver Looking To Still Be Replaced By A Newer Driver From Samsung
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Originally posted by aksdb View PostToo bad they just went silent. I would have liked to get some insight into the quality of their drivers (and had some high hopes for that).
But I guess Samsung's driver should be quite battle proven to be a good addition. We'll see :-)
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Originally posted by billbo View Post
Patents in the US at least have max. terms of 20 years. As FAT32 was first released in Windows 95 OSR2, that ship may have already sailed. The TomTom case was back in 2009. I suppose if one dug deep enough one could find which patents Microsoft cited in that case to verify that they have expired.
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Originally posted by caligula View PostI think they've made updates to FAT32 after that. XBOX has a special version of FAT32. Some later versions increased the maximum block size. So, some FAT32 may still be active.
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Originally posted by billbo View PostPatents in the US at least have max. terms of 20 years. As FAT32 was first released in Windows 95 OSR2, that ship may have already sailed. The TomTom case was back in 2009. I suppose if one dug deep enough one could find which patents Microsoft cited in that case to verify that they have expired.
According to the article there was 8 patents used and 5 of those have expired the remaining 3 unexpired patents isn't related to FAT.
The short version is that all the FAT patents used against TomTom has expired.
Last edited by Nille_kungen; 31 December 2019, 02:35 PM.
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Originally posted by rogerx View PostRelavent with Patent incumbered code and Microsoft's ownership of GitHub, why are the Linux kernel sources using GitHub rather than GitLab?
Linux kernel source are minored to github and gitlab but the masters are on kernel.org. There is talk about kernel.org running its own gitlab instances in time as well. Just doing that change is not a simple or painless process.
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