Re: Large-FAT32-Filesystem Bug

[Gene Heskett]

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@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?

The patent is on the long filenames piece of vfat AIUI.  The older 
fat16/fat32 stuff isn't covered AFAIK.

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