"they require you to use FAT during setup."
that is because fat is usable by anyone. anything more is patented.
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Taylor, Kaia<
Kaia.Taylor@schwab.com> wrote:
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> I don't know much about reactOS ( http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html http://www.nuxified.org/react_os_windows_done_right )
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> but in reading this thread, I wonder how they have avoided the m$ patent/extortion issues? Per http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/open_source/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218400772&pgno=4&queryText=&isPrev=
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> they require you to use FAT during setup.
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>
> Regards,
> Kaia Taylor
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> From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of der.hans
> Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 10:51 PM
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> Subject: Re: ext? as fat or ntfs?
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> Am 18. Jul, 2009 schwätzte Lisa Kachold so:
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>> Not sure what you are trying to do, but pendrive installations use
>> Fat32 which is supported under both Linux and Windows.
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> Well, FAT partitions suck, they're patent encumbered and according to m$ they're not allowed to work under Linux unless we pay extortion money. They need to go away.
>
> I think the m$ patent claims won't hold up to scrutiny, but why fight to keep something that sucks? Instead, let's come up with a way to support free and open filesystems everywhere and get them to be the default.
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> I just format my thumb drives to ext$something, but I don't have to worry about being able to use them on windows boxen.
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> Most people do need that ability. Let's give them unencumbered filesystems. If we do this right everyone will be able to use partitions we associate with Linux, *BSD, OpenSolaris and most anything else.
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> Heck, if we can get FUSE working on windows without needing a kernel driver that would be absolutely outstanding :).
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> ciao,
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> der.hans
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