[einhverfr]

> So, answering the question opened in another thread, if FreeDOS developers read the code, they risk making Microsoft the owner of their future contributions.

This is a really serious issue, because we can be reasonably certain that Microsoft wants to release a new version of DOS in the reasonably near future and so this is a sinister plot to get a nonexclusive license to FreeDOS so they can charge licensing fees. Quite ingenious.....

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[rbanffy]

I would think Microsoft takes the FAT module of the Linux kernel very seriously. The way to store long file names as multiple directory entries is one of the patents Microsoft uses as its main mobile revenue driver (they get more money out of Android licenses than they get from Windows Phone sales).

[einhverfr]

I don't think long file names were supported in DOS 2.0