Laughing Boy wrote:

] I'm sorry... my BS-O-METER is buried in the red. This reminds
] me of the Unisys claim that they were suddenly owed royalties
] by every company that sold software supporting .GIF image
] files a couple years back. There really need to be laws in

Recall that this was a big deal at the time; e.g. open-source software couldn't support (creating) gif files without buying an LZW license from Unisys. The patent expired in the US in June and expires elsewhere next year; I'll blog details in a minute.

RE: FAT File System Technology and Patent License