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FAT patent back.

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worker201:
That's probably why it is so common in digital devices.  I guess now companies will have to start adopting UCF or whatever.  You know, since somebody went ahead and made a free open standard for portable digital devices and all.

mobrien_12:

--- Quote from: WMD ---Actually, FAT does have something good going for it: it's got mature, robust read/write support in nearly every OS out there.  I would never use anything else for my USB flash drive.  With FAT, I can plug it into any computer with USB and not worry.
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I agree.  I need to use my USB flash drives with non-linux systems too.  

Not to mention the fact that my digital camera will not work if I format its flash memory with anything but FAT.  

It also is worth mentioning that the use of a journaled file system on a flash drive is really NOT a good idea.

I'm just wondering how long it will be before MS tries to use this as a weapon against Linux.  You all know it's coming.

Pathos:
NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

toadlife:

--- Quote from: cymon ---But still, the fact that Microsoft is taking credit for something they bought out is really dissapointing. Expected, but still unacceptable.
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They don't have a patent for what they bought - they have a patent for the extentions they added onto it that allow long filenames to coexist with short "8.3" filenames. AFAIK, you can use FAT sans the long filename support freely.

Aloone_Jonez:
Anyway why are we so worried about hardware?

Surely we should be more concerned about the consequences for free software.

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