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Ooops ... you did it again!  It's hard to remember who you are after a night of
heated trolling, isn't it Mezei?

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http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/tech/fat.asp

Essentially, Microsoft wants $0.25 for every device built that uses the FAT
file storage design which Microsoft claims to have copyrighted in 1976 (didn't
know Microsoft existed back then).

(There is a cap of $250,000 dollars).

Does this mean that ever IA64 based VMS system will have to pay the royalty
twice ? Once for the IA64 hardware which understands FAT, and one for the VMS
system which will store the boot media into a FAT partition enclosed into a
VMS file ?

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Jean-Francois Mezei
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