[Gllug] FAT patent

[Nix]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Dan Stevens wrote:
> Does this apply to FAT 32 as well?

The patents are on the horrible scheme used by VFAT to encode long
filenames.

As usual Linux will ignore them (you *can't* remove stuff just because
there are existing patents or we might just as well rm -rf /...)

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