FAT file system now licensed by MS ?

On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, William Donzelli wrote: I'm NOT objecting to "supplementing". (THIS TIME) I'm griping that in an entire page purporting to be the history, they provide only a couple of sentences, and those leave gaps so big that they don't make complete sense. (When saying that Bill Gates created it in a hotel room in Albuquerque NM (a somewhat less important detail), and then saying "purchased rights", they oughta explain why they would "purchase rights" to what they had created! Even "purchased rights to IMPROVEMENTS in order to make a better OS for YOU" would be a better "history") Then they have multiple paragraphs about one particular [kludged] modification to it. I would RATHER see tham "supplementing", than the few almost RANDOM unconnected snippets that they provide. I DO object to the Cringely CRAP, wherein he has Microsoft cold calling IBM to sell IBM on the idea of having an operating system! NEVER HAPPENED. (IBM went to Microsoft, and Bill Gates did a good job of peddling his stuff) and then Cringely starts preaching into the camera that business students should study his FABRICATED FICTION! (THAT is when he should F OFF) and the Killdall eulogy (which I really like) is done by people who loved and admired Gary, and don't SEE anything out of place about standing up IBM to "deliver some documentation manuals to Oakland" (not delegatable?) It also fails to mention some of the "culture clash" issues - IBM was "shocked" at the working environment at DR, and there were unsubstantiated reports that when the IBM people arrived (looking a bit out of place for that community, some DR people thought that it was a drug raid. -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com