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Linus Torvalds Helps Busting Microsoft's Bogus Patent

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Muktware; By Swapnil Bhartiya
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Microsoft was using this patent against Motorola and B&N. Motorola found a post by Linus Torvalds which predated the Microsoft patent by three years. Microsoft lawyers were not happy with this and argued with Linus over the confirmation of the date to an extent that the creator of Linux told them to stop that stupid argument. "At some point, I basically said: ‘OK stop this stupid argument, can we go on to something else?" says Linus.

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So this about the infamous vfat long file name patent BernardSwiss 2 2,246 Mar 29, 2012 5:33 AM

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