>Wouldn't the copyright on FAT have expired anyway by now?

AIUI the patent ended up being only on how to achieve long file names on 
FAT. That article may refer to M$ attempting to patent FAT itself, but as 
many people pointed out there was a heap of prior use before M$ used it. 

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