Ouch!

[Tim]

Daniel B. Thurman:
>> ... My guess is that this particular patent is just to increase the
>> # of patents that M$ currently holds - and that is all that is
>> needed.

Robert P. J. Day:
> i'm not sure i agree.  as a previous poster mentioned, a patent on
> the long names featurs of FAT has the potential to impact a lot of
> handheld/digital/personal devices -- PDAs, digital cameras, etc.

Microsoft hoping to rake in more revenue from appliances using *their*
technology, more than trying to prevent people using it...

Wouldn't such devices be better off with something like UDF, instead
though?

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