[GEM Development] Digital site at Maxframe

[Rev Peter R Green]

G'day!

Thanks for sending the link...

Has anyone caught up on the news that Microsoft is asserting ownership 
over the FAT file system and plans to licence it to users? I received a 
news report on this at work last week, but can't remember where it was. 
Could be PC Authority or one of the US based magazine/newsletters. I had 
a quick look at the linked MS site and, from that browse, it looks like 
the report was pretty correct.

Could kill the floppy...

Cheers,

Peter

Davey Brain wrote:

> Hi all,
> I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but I stumbled on this 
> site while researching the M$ VFAT patents, which lead me to the 
> history of DOS & FAT and the DRI involvments:
>
> <http://www.maxframe.com/DR.HTM>
>
> Notice the mention of OpenGEM on the page, good job!
>
> Everyone who runs DRDOS/GEM should save that pic of Gary Kildall. He 
> was a genious, changed the course of computing history and died with 
> basically nothing left, a broken man. Compare that to the beg, borrow 
> and steal monopoly of another company started by the richest miser in 
> the world...