M$ to license FAT

William Park opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org
Mon Dec 8 18:55:22 UTC 2003


On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 01:02:17PM -0500, Robert Brockway wrote:
> Maybe the manufacturers of these devices will change to another
> filesytem (they can take their pick from many choices available in
> Linux & BSD) in order to avoid paying the licencing fees.

Wishful thinking... If you're selling $500 digital camera, would you be
complaining that you have to pay $0.25 license fee (or whatever it is)?

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