"You can't make this stuff up. Top Microsoft blogger Mary Jo Foley asked, 'What kinds of tools/processes did Microsoft use to determine which open-source code allegedly infringes on Microsoft's patents?' Their answer: 'No further details are available at this time.' read more
Traditionally, Unix/Linux/POSIX filenames can be almost any sequence of bytes, and their meaning is unassigned. The only real rules are that "/" is always the directory separator, and that filenames can't contain byte 0 (because this is the terminator). Although this is flexible, this creates many unnecessary problems. In particular, this lack of limitations makes it unnecessarily difficult to write correct programs (enabling many security flaws), makes it impossible to consistently and accurately display filenames, causes portability problems, and confuses users. more ....
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