Ouch!

[Roger Heflin]

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Robert P. J. Day
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 9:21 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: RE: Ouch!
> 
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Roger Heflin wrote:
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> > > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Paul 
> F. Johnson
> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 8:30 AM
> > > To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> > > Subject: Ouch!
> > >
> > > 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/11/microsoft_wins_patent_case/
> > >
> > > Looks like fat support may have to be slimmed down :-(
> >
> > The patent is only the one for longer file names on FAT filesystems.
> >
> > It is not a patent for FAT in general.
> 
> um ... so the concept of supporting longer filenames 
> qualifies as "novel and non-obvious?"  really?


Apparently the screwball way they did it, yes, they had to come
up with the method to put things into the already existing structures,
and I believe it is rather a odd hack, since the pre-existing structures
only have space for 8+3, how they are doing it is a lot different than
the way one does it for a filesystem designed from the ground up to accept
long filenames.


                         Roger