(Un)fortunately, FAT is so inherent to DOS in a way that no block
devices can host other fs (all the rest are "network file systems"),
that I doubt that these ideas, yet if marvelous, are hardly possible.
Aitor
Christian Voß escribió:
Hi,
I can't understand the crying about the FAT patent.
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 20:22 -0500, ultramancool wrote:
> And of course the most important part: to scare the open source
> community into thinking they can't use FAT anymore. ;-)
Doesnt FAt come from cpm and therefore prior art? Remember American
judges are often dumber than a box of rocks.
CWS
--- Christian Voß <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can't understand the crying about the FAT patent.
> In the whole "world" of
> file systems are enough candidates to replace the
> Grandma of file systems.
> And most of them are free. I.e. HFS and HFS+ (the
> file systems of MacOS) are
> GP
Andre Tertling wrote:
If I read the patents in question right, they are not exactly "FAT"
patents but rather "LFN for FAT" patents. The primary reason for the
patents is to cut a nice slice from the memory stick/card market for M$.
FAT has one large benefit: Because it is so simple, it is easy
If I read the patents in question right, they are not exactly "FAT"
patents but rather "LFN for FAT" patents. The primary reason for the
patents is to cut a nice slice from the memory stick/card market for M$.
FAT has one large benefit: Because it is so simple, it is easy to
implement on low-e
I Agree, things like this will only make the FreeDOS crew rebell with new
FS, MS are doing them selfs no favours at all with this move.
But its been on the brew for along time, maybe they will not do much about
it now.
>Hi,
>I can't understand the crying about the FAT patent. In the whole "world
Hi,
I can't understand the crying about the FAT patent. In the whole "world" of file systems are enough candidates to replace the Grandma of file systems. And most of them are free. I.e. HFS and HFS+ (the file systems of MacOS) are GPL and is supported by the linux distros for free. Ok, on Window
