[colug-432] CYGWIN and NTFS

[Joshua Kramer]

Last time I checked there is better support in Linux for NTFS than there is
for ExFAT.


On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Jeff Stebelton <jeff.stebelton at gmail.com>wrote:

> Interesting. Thanks.
> On Feb 1, 2014 7:26 PM, "Rick Troth" <rmt at casita.net> wrote:
>
>> On 02/01/2014 02:45 PM, Jeff Stebelton wrote:
>> >
>> > What is the Microsoft tax?
>> >
>>
>> Microsoft acquired the FAT filesystem when it got QDOS which became
>> MS-DOS. Presumably they added directory/hierarchy capability themselves
>> (for MS-DOS 2.x and beyond). Then when long filenames became vogue, they
>> invented VFAT, which is a clever way of leveraging the underlying "File
>> Allocation Table" mechanism to hold the fancier names. They were granted
>> patents for VFAT which they have successfully used against
>> Google/Android. As I recall, they also went against TomTom. (I don't pay
>> as much attention to these things as I should.)
>>
>> The "tax" is patent revenue demanded by the patent holder (Microsoft)
>> for use of their invention. Not likely they have much case against you
>> or me ... but I'm not a lawyer. It's annoying at least.
>>
>> -- R; <><
>>
>>
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