http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/taxonomy/term/781/0 en http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/fat <p><a href="http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2009/02/27/#20090227-microsoft_patent_lawsuit" rel="nofollow">Harald</a> has a nice overview of the FUD that is being spread again by some company from RedMond ..</p> <p>Now why are they targeting TomTom ? Surely because Canon and Sony and different others are to big to sue, Both my EOS400D, Ixus400 and K800i , are using a way to FAT filesystem to store files on,<br /> I tried putting ext2 formatted disks in them but that failed :)<br /> (Not running Linux or already having paid up might be another reason) </p> <p>Harald notes that there is no difference between the Kernel.org FAT implementation and the TomTom implementation so why aren't they going for a bigger fish ? </p> <p>I`m sure there are plenty of other companies shipping Linux based products that are allowing people to use their own Flashdisks hence using the FAT code.</p> <p>TomTom is originally from The Netherlands, yet the case is<br /> filed somewhere in the US. I wonder how the EC would react to such a suit.</p> <p>Oh well.. interresting times ahead ...</p> http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/fat#comments fat gpl open source opensource patent tomtom Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:02:25 +0000 Kris Buytaert 884 at http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/node/592 <p>The interweb thinks there isn't much future for Zimbra if Yahoo gets swallowed by Redmond. I`m not sure.</p> <p>There are different alternatives apart from the being extinguished during the takeover.<br /> I have no clue how the core developers and the management of Zimbra was reimbursed when they were taken over by Yahoo, however I hope they didn't waste all their money and still have some money left. As they went this far with the company already they must have some good contacts with financial people that can help them get a new company off the ground ArbmiZ or ɐɹqɯız would be good names ;)</p> <p>They could either go with a fresh start, or Yahoo could be so smart to have the guys perform an MBO.<br /> Or even sell the Zimbra assests again .. even at loss.</p> <p>If getting the Zimbra organisation out of Yahoo doesn't work why not hire the key developers away from the company effectively rendering it worthless , big chance you don't have to hire them away from their current job but just be waiting at the front doors when the exodus starts, people either don't want to work for the new company or will be forced to leave as they are redundant. </p> <p>RedHat has a big opportunity here .. they don't have a relevant mail offering yet, there have been rumors around RedHat going to partner with the OpenXchange folks but I haven't heard from that yet .., but other companies might have look at the codebase also.</p> <p>Would we need a fork ? We don't know yet .. </p> <p>But I don't think we have to worry that much .. I think there are bigger things to worry about ..</p> http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/node/592#comments fork gpl mbo microsoft redhat yahoo zimbra Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:45:31 +0000 Kris Buytaert 592 at http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog