Messages in this thread | | | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: Large-FAT32-Filesystem Bug | Date | Sun, 7 Dec 2003 08:56:50 -0500 |
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On Sunday 07 December 2003 07:26, 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?
The patent is on the long filenames piece of vfat AIUI. The older fat16/fat32 stuff isn't covered AFAIK.
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