On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 05:38:33AM +1100, Kevin Waterson wrote: > MS is set to begin charging a license fee for FAT file system > FAT is used by camera manufacturers and more importantly is > used on Compact Flash cards used by digital cameras.
Don't know why. It's utterly shite for flash memory, since FAT keeps hammering the same sections of the device, and flash has a limited number of write cycles before it dies. JFFS2 is much nicer, I'm told. At any rate, I can see a lot of companies rolling over and paying up. Pity. > http://www.dpreview.com/news/0312/03120403microsoftisfat.asp ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Yeah, and they smell too. <grin> - Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
