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? -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
