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Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Thu Dec 18 00:56:36 UTC 2003


Vic Gedris writes:

> On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:19:45PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On Dec 17, 2003, Tyler larson <fedora-devel at tlarson.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > FAT is patented my Microsoft
>> 
>> Some FAT extensions are.  The FAT filesystem format in general isn't,
>> AFAIK.
> 
> Information from the source:
> http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/tech/fat.asp
> 
> It appears that they are only charging for it if it's being used on
> hardware devices (flash cards, portable devices, etc.).  They don't
> mention anything about shipping *software* with FAT support.

That's what that web page says today.  What makes you think that this is 
what it will say tomorrow?  Next week?  Month?  Year?

The decision whether to rip FAT out is not likely to be based on what that 
webpage says today.

> Perhaps someone should email "fatspec at microsoft dot com" to find out
> for sure.

Neither will it be based on any response anyone gets from that E-mail 
address.

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