Jeff Kinz wrote: > > I agree FAT certainly seems to work well with USB/flash devices. I just > have one small worry, are there any concerns about patent issue for use > of FAT file-systems?
I'm not a lawyer but I researched this at my prior job for a product I wrote FAT support for. Microsoft's patents are on long filenames on FAT and some parts of FAT32 If you just do FAT 12/16 and no long filenames you should be patent free. -- Richard A. Smith _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
