RE: [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