At 00.56 05/12/2003, you wrote:
However I think this is yet again bully-boy tactics by Mr. Gates and his cronies, attempting to squeeze every last cent (or penny) out of anyone having anything to do with technology they "invented".
well, they invented VFAT, as long as I can tell. I can't name any other broken filesystem on which long filename support was later shoehorned in a backward-compatible way by using multiple linked directory entries (ugh! that hurts!) for each file