ext? as fat or ntfs?

[Taylor, Kaia]

I don't know much about reactOS ( http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html http://www.nuxified.org/react_os_windows_done_right ) 

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=  

they require you to use FAT during setup.  


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Kaia Taylor

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From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at 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?

Am 18. Jul, 2009 schwätzte Lisa Kachold so:

> Not sure what you are trying to do, but pendrive installations use
> Fat32 which is supported under both Linux and Windows.

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.

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.

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.

Heck, if we can get FUSE working on windows without needing a kernel driver that would be absolutely outstanding :).

ciao,

der.hans
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