From: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
To: 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 13:26:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031207122650.GA30938@hh.idb.hist.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <005301c3bb32$11a041a0$1225a8c0@kittycat>
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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-07 12:15 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 [this message]
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
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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