On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:11, Mike McCarty wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > > > > >>... 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. > > > > > > 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. > > Especially since MicroSoft gives the terms of the license, I > believe that they intend to enforce their patents, and make > some money doing so. This could be a good thing. It will get many of those companies to use an unencumbered file system format on such devices. Which should force support of those file systems into Windows....
