[En-Nut-Discussion] Phat Formatting

[Ole Reinhardt]

Hi all,

> After all these informations I come to the conclusion, that we should 
> handle this with more care. We should consider to exclude VFAT 
> compatibility from standard build and place related routines to the new 
> contrib folder.
> 
> http://www.ethernut.de/nutwiki/Nut/OS_Roadmap
> (near the end of the page)

Is there anyone here with a deeper knowledge to all this patent related
things? i.E. from FSFE?

Anyway other free operating systems like xyz-BSD and Linux also support
VFAT. So there _must_ be a possebility to use FAT nowadays. 

Interesting is the german wikipedia article:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#VFAT

Is seems that at least in germany the VFAT patents were rejected.

Regards,

Ole Reinhardt

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