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From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
To: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>, jdow <jdow@earthlink.net>
Cc: Torsten Scheck <torsten.scheck@gmx.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Large-FAT32-Filesystem Bug
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 08:56:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200312070856.50978.gene.heskett@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031207122650.GA30938@hh.idb.hist.no>

On Sunday 07 December 2003 07:26, 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?

The patent is on the long filenames piece of vfat AIUI.  The older 
fat16/fat32 stuff isn't covered AFAIK.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-07 13:56 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
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 [this message]
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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