[arch] Show Us The Code Campaign

[Hussam Al-Tayeb]

Not only Linux is affected by the FAT patent. You have a lot of
manufacturers who ship Usb drives or Cameras that use FAT filesystem for
storage (where internal storage parts are freformatted as FAT).

On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 17:32 +0100, Alex Smit wrote:
> Some things might indeed be possible to rewrite. But how are you going to 
> solve the problem that Microsoft holds some patents on FAT. The only way to 
> solve that is to stop supporting FAT. That is that whole problem with a 
> patent it's not a thing, it's an idea.
> 
> Sorry, my bad.
> 
> Alex.
> 
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Hussam Al-Tayeb. GnuPG Key: F97D3A19
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