Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 7 Dec 2003 13:20:34 +0100 | From | Tomasz Torcz <> | Subject | Re: Large-FAT32-Filesystem Bug |
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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@gmx.de> > > > > > 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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