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UEFI is flawed for sure, but there's no way that any remaining patents on FAT32 haven't expired by now.
You may be surprised to learn that they didn't all run out until 2013. UEFI had been around for 7 years by this time, and Microsoft was doing patent enforcement actions against Tom Tom during this time period.
Sure, they're expired now, but not at the time. It was supposed to be an open standard at the time.
Why software patents are a leech on software development: exhibit number 4,294,967,295.