[arch-dev-public] our FAT support and Microsoft

Daenyth Blank daenyth+arch at gmail.com
Sun May 3 11:40:48 EDT 2009


On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 05:38, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
> Might think about it yes, but actually don't include it.
> Even upstream has discussion about if this is the right thing to do.
> This thing is targeted at companies using linux in their embedded
> devices so they won't have a chance of getting sued by Microsoft for
> these invalid patents. I would consider this a huge regression when it
> enters the ARCH stock kernel.
>
>

Agreed. Removing FAT support would be a MASSIVE step back. We are not
debian, there's no need to do this.


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