Re: Linux RIP?

[Neil Cherry <njc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 01:48:07 GMT, Dave Houston wrote:
> Someone <Someone@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:25:31 GMT, nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)
>>used recycled pixels to say:
>>
>>>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1909857,00.asp
>>
>>on second thought, who cares?!  Who uses FAT anymore?
>
> Most removable media.

IANAL, but here's the rub, the patents aren't for the FAT as much as
they are for the long file names and a few other features of the new
fat systems. The old FAT system isn't part of the patents mentioned.
So while the long names will probably need to be removed the use of
the FAT won't need to be.

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