[Tfug] Looks like Microsoft is really getting greedy.

[Angus Scott-Fleming]

On 9 Dec 2003 at 20:11, Bob O'Connell  wrote:

> Saw this on a Digital Camera mailing list.
> 
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> Microsoft's FAT charges                                  Thu, 4 Dec
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> Microsoft will soon be charging manufacturers of flash memory card
> devices and those which use them $0.25 per unit or up to $250,000
> to use the FAT filesystem. For those who are unaware the FAT file
> system was developed by Microsoft back in 1976 and has become the
> standard file system for all digital still cameras....
> 
> http://www.dpreview.com/news/0312/03120403microsoftisfat.asp

Huge discussion of this on /., of course.  I suspect most 
digital-device manufacturers may cave on this as to most 
.25/$250k is a drop in the bucket and M$'s monopoly ensures 
that ease-of-use is worth far more than re-engineering.

A
 
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