[ros-dev] Patent on FAT

[Ge van Geldorp]

> From: Wesley Parish
> 
> And as I said, the idea of long file names - hidden in a 
> separate file - was in use for at least 5 years before 
> Microsoft came out with MS Win95.  So the patent is bogus, 

This is not what the patent protects. The patent protects storing a long and
a short version of the filename in the same directory. That's different from
storing a long filename in a separate hidden file.

GvG