Fedora Core 2 wishlists
Vic Gedris
vic at gedris.org
Wed Dec 17 16:54:09 UTC 2003
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.
Perhaps someone should email "fatspec at microsoft dot com" to find out
for sure.
And of course...there's a HUGE Slashdot thread about this ;-)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/04/1318212&mode=thread&tid=109&tid=155&tid=187&tid=99
I would personally like to see Fedora continue to ship FAT if possible.
I use it for the occasional floppy disk, and CF cards, etc.
Cheers,
Vic
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