> What you gonna do when MS knocks on the door for their FAT patent > license fee > > http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/02/microsoft-sues-tomtom-over-fat-patents-in-linux-based-device.ars >
i love it. we have complaining that fat doesn't do more than 8.3 and trolling that there's a patent liability for doing more than 8.3 within 24 hrs. just to be clear. fat itself is not patented. just some particular aspects of a 8.3 workaround. > though maybe the inability to do fat32 will save you. dossrv and 9load both read fat32. > I like the sound of the sector 1 idea, I'm sure making a tool to r/w it > in Linux / whatever can't be hard. i think that's the point of using fat. no tools required. you're already in a pickle if you've gotten to this point. consider the acer inspire machine this week that - erik
