Am 19. Jul, 2009 schwätzte Lisa Kachold so:
moin moin,
all of your links support the idea that we should stop using FAT
filesystems. We should also stop using them because they suck.
Since the very early days, a great many integration tools in Linux
have involved hundreds of patent infringements. Microsoft keeps these
as a sort of hold card:
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033867/
Steve Ballmer said, "What's fair is fair." That's like Capone talking
about the advantages of non-violence.
"Gutierrez refuses to identify specific patents or explain how they're
being infringed, lest FOSS advocates start filing challenges to them."
m$ obviously knows the patent infringement claims are bogus or easy to
avoid.
In any case, staying with something controlled by m$ is a bad idea.
If a restaurant keeps poisoning you, stop going to that restaurant.
So, I personally don't expect that governments and others are suddenly
going to start to change their use of FAT32, vFAT, etc.
True. Doubly so if we don't come up with a viable alternative for them.
Let's create the alternative and work on getting them to slowly move to
free and unencumbered solutions.
As you already determined, whatever is used MUST integrate with m$.
So, they really are not going to be able to hold patents very long for
cross platform integration.
Actually, I don't think they MUST integrate with m$, but I think that
helps us build a bridge from proprietary to free and open. It would also
help us put the onus on m$ to support the free and open filesystems.
ciao,
der.hans
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