Re: [ros-general] Microsoft wants royalties for use of FAT

[Rick Parrish]

Waldo Alvarez wrote:

>  
> Let's keep with NTFS and FAT and with time design a new patent free 
> filesystem. If M$ complaints then we take away the drivers and ppl will be able to get
> them from previous releases. The FSF did that with XMMS and patents with MP3s.
>   
>  
Works for me. Sort of like limping along on MP3s and GIFs until 
patent/license free OGG and PNG support is ready.

-rick