Lose FAT Now - Ask Me How?

Clearly the Linux Foundation has little patience with anything having to do with a potential Microsoft lawsuit. But rather than dwell on it, they have simply advised folks to avoiding using FAT on memory cards if at all possible. A reasonable idea, but one that may take a bit for it to catch on.

Then one of the lead developers from the Samba project provided a patch that might just be enough to prevent Microsoft from being a threat in this regard. In short, the patch basically alters the behavior of FAT in such a manner that it apparently is no longer something Microsoft can come after anyone for.

And because the whole lawsuit situation with TomTom had to do with the patents surrounding the way FAT deals with file names, it seems that the above mentioned patch could be just what the doctor ordered to prevent any more problems for hardware vendors ending up in the sights of Microsoft’s lawsuit engine.