<quote who="Kevin Waterson"> > > They're charging a license fee for THEIR CODE, on top of the statement > > that there are patents related to the FAT filesystem. These include the > > long file name mapping method, which has fairly obvious and clever prior > > art (UMSDOS) in our operating system of choice. > > Do I get $0.25 refund if I format my flash card as ext2?
Why do you think your vendor will charge you for the format of their media? Talk about nasty grey areas. The patents, should anyone actually care about them, would affect software implementation of functionality provided by FAT rather than media formatted with FAT. MS scare stories are boring, let's talk about CHINA. SPAIN. THE UK NHF. :-) - Jeff -- Come to gnome.conf.au 2004! http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/2004/gnome.conf.au/ I am Jack's smoking gun. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
