Who should Software Freedom sue on FAT32?

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Mar 8, 2009 3:39 PM EDT
ZDNet Blogs; By Dana Blankenhorn
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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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Completely Clueless rdtennent 0 747 Mar 9, 2009 1:14 AM

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