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[Tyler Larson]

On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 16:23, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:40:02AM -0700, Tyler larson wrote:
> > > Removing FAT support will have negative implications.
> > 
> > FAT is patented my Microsoft, and they're recently announced that
> > they're going to start enforcing that patent. It's not a question of how
> > useful FAT is, it's a question of whether or not we *have* to remove it.
> 
> and what is actually patented and what is actually relevant and what prior art
> exists. FAT itself is very old but VFAT is a bit different. Obviously this is
> all something Red Hat legal people have to look into.
> 
> More likely however is that Microsoft will push a "new" super-fat DRM encrypted
> system to all the camera people.

While Microsoft is definitely pushing licensing on the flash
media/digital camera people, the irony is that the patents listed cover
the FAT extensions that handle long filenames... which digital cameras
never use.

It'll be interesting to see how that plays out.