> Charles Craft 08:14 2004-06-04:
> >This is troubling as well. Any PIC application that accesses a
> CF card needs to license the FAT from Microsoft?
>
> I guess they will not bother with small companies.  But cameras
> that use FAT (all seem to) in order to easily connect to
> MSwindows will be more expensive...

        Please check the archives for prior discussion on this. The crux is that
Microsoft does NOT have a patent on FAT, it has patents on various
extensions to the FAT file system, and most of those patents have so much
prior art that it's very unlikely they would hold up if challenged.

        Frankly this sort of stuff is just more and more evidence of how absolutely
flawed the patent system has become. TTYL

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