oiaohm wrote:
Sory to say dosemu does not really do fat at all. It freedos that does fat.
details! dosemu relies on freedos in enough ways to be for all intents of purposes. you say it could rely on msdos - i think not, absolutely not, even if on a *purely technical* level it's true.
oiaohm wrote:Freedos is older than us and most likely on it own. Only hope is to find prior art that is close enough to get the patent thown out or it does not hold because of entrapment since they should of acted sonner.
amen- and i tried to find freedos people worried about this like ros community worries about this and i can't find it. i think this whole thing is an overreaction. MS doesn't want to kill support of fat they want to leech a little more $ off of hardware manufacturers... i'm betting.
oiaohm wrote:dosemu can run MS-Dos it really does not give a stuff.
yeah think about it we're talking about a linux project. you really think they'll say "oh screw it ust use ms dos" i think they'd just bolster support of freedos. foss is the ties that bind. ros and linux and dosemu are all gpl at that.
oiaohm wrote:I am thinking about a new version of fat(someone a name.)
sure, many fat compatible but patent noninfringing ideas will come out of this just as 4dos came out of fat- look at the NEW iso 96?? cd format: iso9660 did not have long names... MS joliet added that. new iso has long filenames. there is a free ticket in there somewhere.
oiaohm wrote:Break away from microsoft if they want to be idiots can solve alot of our problems.
i'm sure they love to be but there is a limit to everything even a limit to stupid. i know some days it doesn't seem that way, but there is a limit to any day.
fat is important to many people using ros and many devices compatible with win and until it becomes a real issue it would be foolish to abandon it.
if MS wants to fight ros someday i don't think they will make issue of fat anyway, they will complain about something else. like ntfs. you can't think for a second they haven't got a zillion patents on that, of which they will enforce about 4. MS is where the $ is. the threat ros poses MS is not a threat ros support of fat poses. MS only attacks something legally when convenient and profitable. no $ here. can't squeeze blood from a turnip. they will hit the hardware people.
SCO will have a fit about this, and MS will support them from a curtain, and userfriendly will point and laugh, and reason will actually win this one. sco sets the precident: fight foss and someday you'll be laughed out of court. it may take hard work and eff but no worries. must stop ranting. thanks for patience.