On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:13 +0000, Paul F. Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > > If FAT patent is upheld, then I guess FAT support has to be removed. > > I have a feeling it will be appealed again. FAT is not a novel or > non-obvious format - file allocation tables have been used since the > inception of SCSI drives and even as far back (home use) as 1984 with > the Sinclair ZX Microdrive and BBC "floopy" drives. > I am pretty sure that IBM used the same method for storing long names in the allocation table in early OS/2. Microsoft was working with IBM with later releases of OS/2 but the implementation of the "compatible" file system was first done by IBM. -- David Mohring <heretic@xxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
