> On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 15:13:55 +0100, you wrote:
>
>> time to use some other file system, such as ext2 or ext3...
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/tech/fat.asp
>
>  I hardly think 25 cents per product will break anybody's budget. For =
> anyone wanting any sort of PC connectivity, the cost of developing the
> PC end for any alternative = format would be far more.=20

25 cents is 50% of he price of floppy disk media, each. Any factory that
turns out floppies in Asia will snub them with their $250k. They probably
don't make twice as much per annum on the floppies, net.

And every developer who wants to make a (pic based) device that talks to a
CF card or to a MMC and implements (or has implemented ?) FAT needs a
license, and cannot transfer it (as in, sell a solution as a software
component) probably without a special agreement from the borg, which will
co$t. Also, they can probably not publish it or release it as open source.

Peter

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