So this about the infamous vfat long file name patent

Story: Linus Torvalds Helps Busting Microsoft's Bogus Patent Total Replies: 2
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BernardSwiss

Mar 28, 2012
8:51 PM EDT 		from http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.minix/browse_thread/t...

Linus Torvalds in comp.os.minix Dec 23 1992, 8:34 am wrote:

(b) do the long filenames by fooling around with several consecutive minix-type directory entries. Depending on how you do it, you can make old binaries see only th first characters of a extended filename, while new binaries see them all. Besides, this means you won't waste a full 64-char direntry for short files, but instead use several entries only when necessary. The downside is that it's a bit more work in the kernel.


Why did this take so frickin long !?
jacog

Mar 29, 2012
4:23 AM EDT 		Tomtom must be kicking their own rear ends right about now since that patent was the backbone of the patent tomfoolery brought against them by Microsoft.
nikkels

Mar 29, 2012
5:33 AM EDT 		If Tomtom was done in by u$ , they should start an action accusing u$ of...............( what ? ) It will shake up the world a little.

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