That article was from '09 and says the file system was experimental.

EDIG was approached late '09, by their account, regarding licensing without having to take legal action, based on their previous settlement cases.

The original tech, according to the article, was from Qualcomm....I'll leave the deciphering to doni and emit, but a collaboration does not seem out of the question, based on that article.

Sure is getting more interesting trying to figure out what the significant new developments are...