Re: [Freedos-devel] mTCP/IP stack by M Brutman is now closed source

2015-09-23 Thread Zog
I just wanted to say that I thank M Brutman for this great software that he has given us for all these years. I may have missed it, but I have not noticed anyone saying it lately and I think that it needs to be said. I have gotten a lot of use out of it, and appreciate the work he has put into

Re: [Freedos-devel] exfat support from android linux for freedos sdxc support and more?

2015-09-23 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Wed, 23 Sep 2015, Eric Auer wrote: > Hi, I noticed that since 2013, there is free open source exFAT > support for Linux, originally coming from Android, in spite of > exFAT being quite proprietary... IIRC, it's worse than proprietary, it's encumbered, right? -uso.

[Freedos-devel] exfat support from android linux for freedos sdxc support and more?

2015-09-23 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I noticed that since 2013, there is free open source exFAT support for Linux, originally coming from Android, in spite of exFAT being quite proprietary... However, as memory cards above 32 GB size and probably other (embedded) devices will probably use exFAT more often in the future, would it

Re: [Freedos-devel] exfat support from android linux for freedos sdxc support and more?

2015-09-23 Thread Eric Auer
Hi again, > Maybe some DOSers want to have a look at the exFAT driver code, > to check complexity: https://github.com/dorimanx/exfat-nofuse Some other interesting links are: https://github.com/relan/exfat and: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT#Adoption which states that one of the drivers

Re: [Freedos-devel] exfat support from android linux for freedos sdxc support and more?

2015-09-23 Thread Ralf Quint
On 9/23/2015 2:45 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > Hi again, > >> Maybe some DOSers want to have a look at the exFAT driver code, >> to check complexity: https://github.com/dorimanx/exfat-nofuse > Some other interesting links are: > > https://github.com/relan/exfat > > and: > >

Re: [Freedos-devel] exfat support from android linux for freedos sdxc support and more?

2015-09-23 Thread Bret Johnson
It's very interesting that Linux appears to have a legitimately licensed implementation, which I think means they had to pay some money to MS? Could that license (via GPL?) perhaps be extended to downstream implementations based on it, like FreeDOS? The licensing implications are certainly a

Re: [Freedos-devel] exfat support from android linux for freedos sdxc support and more?

2015-09-23 Thread JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU
Story of the century:The FreeDOS project sued by M$ for using a simple 16 bit file that is outdated.I would have a good laugh at that one.Then again,it wouldn't be very funny... On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: > On 9/23/2015 2:45 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > >

Re: [Freedos-devel] exfat support from android linux for freedos sdxc support and more?

2015-09-23 Thread Ralf Quint
On 9/23/2015 6:11 PM, JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU wrote: > Story of the century:The FreeDOS project sued by M$ for using a simple > 16 bit file that is outdated.I would have a good laugh at that > one.Then again,it wouldn't be very funny... > What outdated 16 bit file? :? Bottom line, I would not