Dude, care more about the utility than worrying about these problems. The
pen drive storage area is formatted to FAT by most manufacturers. So its
something they should worry about and not you I guess :-)


On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Ashok Gautham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> Recently Microsoft won the case over patents for FAT
>
> http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/microsoft-fat-patents-declared-valid-trouble-for-linux/
>
> Well. Now what? Should we start using some other file system on our pen
> drives. If so, how do we communicate with Windows machines? Also is doing
> something so immediate more paranoid than practical?
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