Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 08 Dec 2003 10:54:55 +0100 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: Large-FAT32-Filesystem Bug |
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Tomasz Torcz wrote: > 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. > No problem then - long filenames on fat is something I only see a need for when sharing a partition with windows - you then have a licence to use fat through the windows licence.
Digital cameras and such simply don't need long names.
Helge Hafting
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