Re: Tom Tom and Microsofts Linux patent lock-down ..

[Doug Mentohl]

7 wrote:

> TomTom is better off spending its energies eliminating FAT from all its 
> products and encouraging other manufacturers to do the same

There's also the case of the third party code .. see here what the 
actual patented 'invention' is ...

(Vehicle computer system with open platform)

(Vehicle computer system with wireless internet, 1999)

(Method and system for generating driving directions, 2003)

(Methods and Arrangements for Interacting with Controllable Objects 
within a Graphical User Interface Environment Using Various Input 
Mechanisms, 2000)

(Portable computing device-integrated appliance, 2005)

(Common name space for long and short filenames, 1996)

(Method and System for File System Management Using a Flash-Erasable, 
Programmable, Read-only Memory, 1992)

http://lwn.net/Articles/321432/
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