[ros-general] Microsoft wants royalties for use of FAT

[KJK::Hyperion]

At 00.56 05/12/2003, you wrote:
>However I think this is yet again bully-boy tactics by Mr. Gates and his 
>cronies, attempting to squeeze every last cent (or penny) out of anyone 
>having anything to do with technology they "invented".

well, they invented VFAT, as long as I can tell. I can't name any other 
broken filesystem on which long filename support was later shoehorned in a 
backward-compatible way by using multiple linked directory entries (ugh! 
that hurts!) for each file