Re: Large-FAT32-Filesystem Bug

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 01:26:50PM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 05:17:00AM -0800, jdow wrote:
> > From: "Torsten Scheck" <torsten.scheck@xxxxxx>
> > 
> > > Dear friends:
> > > 
> > > I already sent a message to the VFAT maintainer, but I decided
> > > to additionally bother this list with a warning. This way some
> > > readers might avoid data loss.
> > 
> > This all may be moot. Microsoft is about to charge a royalty for
> > use of the FAT file system. http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/tech/fat.asp
> > 
> The claim some patents, but aren't FAT so old that they have
> expired?

Patents for storing long names of files (which Microsoft is charging for)
are from 1995 or something.

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