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"obviously duplicated" is irrelevant

Posted Jun 30, 2009 21:06 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: "obviously duplicated" is irrelevant by ianw
Parent article: VFAT patent avoidance and patent workarounds

Have you *seen* VFAT? If an undergraduate student implemented something
that ugly he'd get a C, max.

(Of course, nobody wanted it to be so ugly. VFAT is the way it is because
of back-compatibility with a bunch of now-dead systems...)

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