> 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.

The way I read it, that's not the case. It only applies to manufacturers of
preformatted media and some consumer electronics. It doesn't seem to apply
to somone writing a file system "driver", at least not from what I read
(which was merely the email Amuary Jacquot sent to the list).

Also;
>time to use some other file system, such as ext2 or ext3...

I can't see that happening. I've not looked at implementing ext2 / 3, but
the reason people use FAT is it's simple. Unlike other FS (BFS, XFS, etc)
which use complex data structures (Such as B+ trees), FAT is a simple
singly linked list. Easy to implement on architecture with limited
resources.

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