> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] 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@xxxxxxxxxx > > > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] 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
