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Who should Software Freedom sue on FAT32?

Posted by Sander_Marechal on · 1 comment
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Microsoft owns FAT32, but it didn’t appear to pursue its rights against companies that supported FAT32 in their Linux thumb drives and consumer electronics. Until the TomTom case. At which point Jeremy Allison of Samba says Microsoft had secret cross-licensing deals with all those other guys which violate the GPL. So the question becomes, who should Software Freedom sue?

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rdtennent ·
Software Freedom can't afford to sue anybody (by themselves) and couldn't anyway because the Linux copyrights are held by Linus and co. What Tom Tom have to do is look for a friend with deep pockets, who uses Linux extensively, and who can search for prior art and precedent to invalidate MS's ridiculous patents. In my opinion, Tom Tom are going to be Googled.

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