fun with SD cards

[Richard Smith]

Jeff Kinz wrote:

> 
> I agree FAT certainly seems to work well with USB/flash devices.  I just
> have one small worry, are there any concerns about patent issue for use
> of FAT file-systems?

I'm not a lawyer but I researched this at my prior job for a product I
wrote FAT support for.  Microsoft's patents are on long filenames on FAT
and some parts of FAT32  If you just do FAT 12/16 and no long filenames
you should be patent free.

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Richard A. Smith