Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Barry Schwartz <chemoelectric@×××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: FAT tools, where ?
Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:56
Message-Id: 20091204222621.GA31695@crud.chemoelectric.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: FAT tools, where ? by Frank Peters
1 Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net> write:
2 > That's the beauty of Open Source. Commercial development would have
3 > killed off FAT because of its low popularity, but Open Source maintains
4 > FAT capability because it is something that *should* be available, if
5 > only to allow some small group to tinker with ancient systems.
6
7 Nah, Microsoft kept and would have kept FAT, not to mention
8 COMMAND.COM. IBM systems, traditionally, kept vestiges of stuff from
9 the Pleistocene, all of it carefully documented.