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From: Tomasz Torcz <zdzichu@irc.pl>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Large-FAT32-Filesystem Bug
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 13:20:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031207122034.GA17042@irc.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031207122650.GA30938@hh.idb.hist.no>

On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 01:26:50PM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 05:17:00AM -0800, jdow wrote:
> > From: "Torsten Scheck" <torsten.scheck@gmx.de>
> > 
> > > Dear friends:
> > > 
> > > I already sent a message to the VFAT maintainer, but I decided
> > > to additionally bother this list with a warning. This way some
> > > readers might avoid data loss.
> > 
> > This all may be moot. Microsoft is about to charge a royalty for
> > use of the FAT file system. http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/tech/fat.asp
> > 
> The claim some patents, but aren't FAT so old that they have
> expired?

Patents for storing long names of files (which Microsoft is charging for)
are from 1995 or something.

-- 
Tomasz Torcz                        To co nierealne - tutaj jest normalne.
zdzichu@irc.-nie.spam-.pl          Ziomale na życie mają tu patenty specjalne.
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-07 12:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-05  9:52 Large-FAT32-Filesystem Bug Torsten Scheck
2003-12-05 13:17 ` jdow
2003-12-07 12:26   ` Helge Hafting
2003-12-07 12:20     ` Tomasz Torcz [this message]
2003-12-08  9:54       ` Helge Hafting
2003-12-08 14:10         ` Gene Heskett
2003-12-08 16:19           ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-12-07 13:56     ` Gene Heskett
2003-12-05 15:26 ` Eduard Bloch
2003-12-05 16:07 ` Erik Andersen
2003-12-05 17:54   ` Torsten Scheck
2003-12-05 22:10     ` Erik Andersen
2003-12-05 22:45       ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-05 23:26         ` Måns Rullgård
2003-12-06  0:04           ` Andreas Schwab
2003-12-06  0:44             ` Måns Rullgård
2003-12-06  1:10               ` Andreas Schwab
2004-02-06 14:43   ` Torsten Scheck

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