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FAT patent back.
Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: toadlife ---They don't have a patent for what they bought - they have a patent for the extentions they added onto it that allow long filenames to coexist with short "8.3" filenames. AFAIK, you can use FAT sans the long filename support freely.
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Where does it say that?
The aritcal makes no mention of long filenames, it just deals with FAT. Either way Linux is in violation of the patent because it uses long filenames.
toadlife:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Where does it say that?
The aritcal makes no mention of long filenames, it just deals with FAT. Either way Linux is in violation of the patent because it uses long filenames.
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I saw a couple of people post it, so I found the actual pantent numbers and looked them up at the US Patent office. There are three of them and they all mention the use of long file names.
Calum:
--- Quote from: WMD ---Actually, FAT does have something good going for it: it's got mature, robust read/write support in nearly every OS out there. I would never use anything else for my USB flash drive. With FAT, I can plug it into any computer with USB and not worry.
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exactly. but how will somebody know if you have a fat filesystem on your device? will there be FAT detector aerials? I don't see how somebody's filesystems can be detected and proven.
Pathos:
I really hope someone in the hardware sector grows some balls and presuades everyone to ext2 so microsoft have to release updates to add drivers for windows.
H_TeXMeX_H:
--- Quote from: Pathos ---I really hope someone in the hardware sector grows some balls and presuades everyone to ext2 so microsoft have to release updates to add drivers for windows.
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uhhh .. I don't see any way of that happening ... unless Mac grows some balls or Linux's marketshare skyrockets exponentially ... the word Monopoly seems to be appropriate here ... :fu: M$
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