TomTom Settles With Microsoft

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 30, 2009 @08:48AM from the caves-not-just-for-bears dept.

Surrounded writes "It appears TomTom bowed to the pressure and settled with Microsoft over the recent patent infringement claims from the Redmond software giant. In the agreement, TomTom will pay Microsoft for coverage under the eight car navigation and file management systems patents in the Microsoft case. Also as part of the agreement, Microsoft receives coverage under the four patents included in the TomTom counter-suit. TomTom also has to remove functionality related to two file management system patents (the 'FAT LFN patents')."

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Re:There are plenty of file formats to choose from by pembo13 · 2009-03-30 09:52 · Score: 1, Troll

I'm sure manufactures can find one format that works on Linux and Mac. The only real problem is Windows.

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