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2009-01-11 , 12:43
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Microsoft filed most patents last year... not sure about software patents. They surely liked to license FAT32.

Originally Posted by Johnx View Post
There were exFAT (aka FAT64 aka fatx) patches floating around for Linux before. In the worst case it will end up like (the unofficial) DVD support in Linux where it's available legally in some countries but its distribution is restricted in others. Eventually Linux also got a closed source, commercial DVD player, but I doubt anyone pays for that except OEMs. If the licensing isn't worked out, things may end up the same way this time.
You can get legal DVD support on Linux/x86 and Linux/AMD64 (and even other platforms; e.g. (Open)Solaris) quite easily via http://www.fluendo.com this is from the same folks who brought us the GStreamer framework. The MP3 decoder is free as in beer. The other decoders cost money, but are sold in bundles, and they're pretty cheap.

In EU this is probably not required; but in US this will give you legal codecs.
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