Clever Linux folk find way around Microsoft FAT file system patent
Score one for Linux developers. Andrew Tridgell, one of the lead developers on the Samba project, may have developed a workaround which will bypass a Microsoft patent on the ubiquitous FAT, VFAT and FAT32 file systems.
For those who don’t know, Linux comes with an Ext2, Ext3 or new Ext4 file system for its native use. [...]
