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Why not? The greedy scumsuckers.Originally posted by Kooldino
Can't blame MS for trying to make more money.
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In order for the device to be able to communicate with Windows it must be formatted with current FAT version, I think.Originally posted by Marshmallowman
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What if they are formatted in an slightly older version fat, eg older than the patent applies?
(It would surprise me if MS hadn´t made sure of that)
Beyond that, I guess they will follow their business model, that is include new "features" in new versions that require new licenses and so on
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I'd laugh if they just created drivers for their cameras (flash card readers too) that used something like JFS or XFS or EXT3 or even maybe ReiserFS, just to get around MS's crap. What I don't get is that it must be some weird version of FAT because I've noticed that Linux for the most part will read on them, but usually says it can't write on the card. (At least for mine...) If it were just FAT, then you'd think linux would have no issues with writing to it.
In fact, my card reader works BETTER under linux than WinXP. WinXP has issues with mounting/unmounting it correctly. For instance, if I just simply unplug the card out of the reader, it messes up and won't remount it unless I select the 'safely unmount' option. Under linux it doesn't care. I just remount it and it's there.
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The thing about FAT is that it can be implemented easily, in a small amount of valuable memory space.Originally posted by leech
I'd laugh if they just created drivers for their cameras (flash card readers too) that used something like JFS or XFS or EXT3 or even maybe ReiserFS, just to get around MS's crap.
The flash memory users need to come up with something else though. FAT rewrites some sectors *all* the time, so that part of the memory will burn out long before the rest of the card would.Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.Comment
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So true, so true. What about some various embedded file systems? Something patent free and copyright free preferably of course.
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Such things exist, but they take up a lot of memory space.Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.Comment
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