On Wed Dec 10, 2003 at 16:51:55 +1100, John Clarke wrote: >On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 04:42:33PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: >> <quote who="Kevin Waterson"> >> >> > Do I get $0.25 refund if I format my flash card as ext2? >> >> Why do you think your vendor will charge you for the format of their media? > >Because http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/tech/fat.asp says: > > A license for removable solid state media manufacturers to > preformat the media, such as compact flash memory cards, to the > Microsoft FAT file system format, and to preload data onto such > preformatted media using the Microsoft FAT file system format. > Pricing for this license is US$0.25 per unit with a cap on total > royalties of $250,000 per manufacturer.
Surely these companis spew out a lot more than 1,000,000 cards so the price to the consumer would be less than .25USc per card *anyway*. /me wonders if floppy disc manufacturers are going to be hit by this as well. Benno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
