Re: Large-FAT32-Filesystem Bug

From: jdow
Date: Fri Dec 05 2003 - 08:17:58 EST


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

Software patents are the death of innovation and competition.

{+_+} Joanne Dow
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