FAT file system now licensed by MS ?

This list {may} be the best source of information to counter a claim made by MS, direct or implied, that it created FAT. If so, we should compile a single statement of fact and submit it to the public press, using the care this matter deserves. I *don't* know the facts of the case, but I could take a coordinated effort from the list and submit it to my local paper with cover letters, adding any other required items, phone-calls, and so on. By the way, my local paper is the New York Times. Microsoft people aren't losers, they're winners who are trying to re-write history in their own interest as winners tend to do. When they're wrong, bold faced or otherwise, they must be contested. Where else are the facts but on this list? Best Wishes, John A.