Not only Linux is affected by the FAT patent. You have a lot of manufacturers who ship Usb drives or Cameras that use FAT filesystem for storage (where internal storage parts are freformatted as FAT).
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 17:32 +0100, Alex Smit wrote: > Some things might indeed be possible to rewrite. But how are you going to > solve the problem that Microsoft holds some patents on FAT. The only way to > solve that is to stop supporting FAT. That is that whole problem with a > patent it's not a thing, it's an idea. > > Sorry, my bad. > > Alex. > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch -- Regards, Hussam Al-Tayeb. GnuPG Key: F97D3A19
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