2007/3/1, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 3/1/07, Hussam Al-Tayeb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not only Linux is affected by the FAT patent. You have a lot of > > manufacturers who ship Usb drives or Cameras that use FAT filesystem for > > storage (where internal storage parts are freformatted as FAT). > > I think that would be considered fair use, those companies aren't > actually writing products to implement fat, they'd just be formatting > it with microsoft's utilities. They don't make the profit of 'fat' > anyway.
Actually, they /do/ pay for FAT... I had to use google to get some hard data on this and it look like Ms starting requesting charges since december 2003... See for example: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0312/03120403microsoftisfat.asp hth, hand. mvg, Guus Snijders _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
