I was OK with the article, right up to the end:
There are also some interesting guerrilla operations sniping at dubious
patents. ... One of its first targets is the FAT (File Allocation Table)
system Microsoft used to organize data on disk drives in its older versions
of Windows and DOS
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I fail to see how challenging this will make the world a better place,
freeing us from the burden of paying onerous royalties to Microsoft for all
the non-Microsoft uses of FAT.

I guess I should google "burn all gifs", and see how that battle is going. I
see that on the http://www.burnallgifs.com site, they still have a link to
the "Amazon boycott page at the Free Software Foundation site", which site
reads: "The FSF decided to end its boycott of Amazon in September 2002". And
the top news on burnallgifs home page is dated 20 June 2003. I'm glad I
hurried by.

Greg Stigers, MCSA
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