What can we expect from a company that tried to patent the binary system =
?=20


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De: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] Em nome de
William Couture
Enviada em: ter=E7a-feira, 7 de dezembro de 2004 18:46
Para: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Assunto: Re: [PIC] LARGE capacity MEMORY for picf876 project. FAT royalti=
es


Microsoft tried to patent FAT, and got bounced pretty hard on it.

So, FAT-12 and FAT-16 can be freely implemented.  FAT-32 may or may not b=
e
under some licensing restrictions.



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