Story of the century:The FreeDOS project sued by M$ for using a simple 16
bit file that is outdated.I would have a good laugh at that one.Then
again,it wouldn't be very funny...
On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/23/2015 2:45 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> >> Maybe some DOSers want to have a look at the exFAT driver code,
> >> to check complexity: https://github.com/dorimanx/exfat-nofuse
> > Some other interesting links are:
> >
> > https://github.com/relan/exfat
> >
> > and:
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT#Adoption
> >
> > which states that one of the drivers is by Samsung, then GPL-ed,
> > but claims that all drivers might conflict with Microsoft patents.
> >
> > I remember that for VFAT and FAT32, it turned out that supporting
> > the filesystem itself by universal-purpose free operating systems
> > like Linux or FreeDOS is no problem, as Microsoft explicitly gave
> > permission for that category of use years ago. How about ExFAT?
> >
> > The wikipedia piece also lists tricks to use exFAT on DOS already.
> > And that, interestingly, ExFAT lacks short file names and "."/"..".
> >
> ExFAT is indeed covered by Microsoft patents, the Samsung driver is said
> to be in violation of those and should be avoided at all cost if you
> don't want to risk patent litigation with M$ at some point...
>
>
> http://techrights.org/2013/07/25/joosun-hahn-gpl-violations-and-samsungs-microsoft-patent-trap-in-linux-exfat/
>
> Ralf
>
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