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Subject: Re: Large-FAT32-Filesystem Bug
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 05:17:00 -0800
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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

Software patents are the death of innovation and competition.

{+_+}    Joanne Dow