Charles Craft 08:14 2004-06-04:
>This is troubling as well. Any PIC application that accesses a CF card needs to license the FAT from Microsoft?

I guess they will not bother with small companies.  But cameras that use FAT (all seem to) in order to easily connect to MSwindows will be more expensive...

IIRC FAT is not very suitable for flash anyway; there is FFS (Flash File System) developed for that cause (cause less wear; evenly distribyted flash rewrite), and now there is both monetary and technical reasons to use it.

I guess MS wil not make Windows handle alterantively (often better) filesystems because they want to lock people to use technology they make money on, even when that is holding development back...

I think another good alterantive is ext2.
Or for compact storage ReiserFS.

/Morgan
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