Re: [ros-dev] FullFAT replacement for Fastfat.sys

[Steven Edwards]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Alex [e-mail] wrote:
> I'm still at a loss as to why you are all ignoring the free, open source,
> FastFAT driver in the Microsoft WDK.

Speaking just for myself, its not clear to me what in the aggregate of
the WDK is actually 'free' and which is just there for reference
purposes. I mean it could be perfectly fine and dandy for us to use
it, but without the ablity to do proper due diligence, it does not
seem to be worth it. Given the history of the fat patent mess, this
should seem perfectly clear.

Until Microsoft has the desire to clearly lay out for us what is safe
to use in an open source project and what is not, I don't see why its
worth the risk.
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Steven Edwards

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