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

[Frank D. Engel, Jr.]

Then calculate short names dynamically at runtime, rather than storing
them?

--- Mark IJbema <mark at ijbema.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 05:18:16PM -0800, Wierd Wierd wrote:
> > >
> > What is the legal status of HPFS- I know it was
> > designed by microsoft, but from what I understand, IBM
> > owns IP rights-- Is the patent on it still valid, and
> > enforceable? If not, then it might be something to
> > look at.  You might be able to take HPFS, and modify
> > it to store DOS short names, for the benefit of the
> > DOS subsystem later on.  I think IBM would be less
> > eager to sue our pants off for using an HPFS variant,
> > than MS would be for using a FAT or NTFS variant.
> 
> That wouldn't help as MS patented the idea of storing long and
> short filenames at the same time in a filesystem.
> 
> Mark
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Frank D. Engel, Jr.

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