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.
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0312/03120403microsoftisfat.asp
enjoy Kevin
Maybe I'm over-simplifying things but the way I see it the feature set for a solid-state (small-ish) media is something along the lines of cramfs or one of those other minimalist open-source formats etc. Assuming manufacturers could agree on a format (yeh, big "IF"...can anyone say "DVD write/rewrite formats"??) the code required to write a winblows driver to suit would be relatively small. Cut M$ out, get rid of that shitty FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 format, raise awareness of OSS etc....everyone wins!
But like I said, I may be over-simplifying it :)
--James
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