MS getting their grubby Capitalist hands in the digital camera industry too.

[GmanJoe]

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0312/03120403microsoftisfat.asp

FAT will cost ya!

sounds like if they ship and sell the cards unformatted they can get around it.

[GmanJoe]

Originally posted by JBean
sounds like if they ship and sell the cards unformatted they can get around it.

Then they can charge ~me~ when I format it.

[Titan]

God I hate M$. Don\'t they have enough money?

There\'s nothing special about FAT; in fact it kind of sucks.

There are plenty of other filesystems camera manufacturers can use instead of FAT, FAT32, NTFS, etc etc.

[Living-In-Clip]

Originally posted by Titan
God I hate M$. Don\'t they have enough money?

You know why you hate MS? Because the general public says to hate MS.
Come on, no they can\'t have enough money. They are a company and the digitial camera industry is a viable industry to invest in.

They\'re not investing.  They\'re leeching off the industry by charging a license fee for their shitty FAT file system.  The camera manufacturers will just switch to some other file system, and MS will be no better off.

Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
You know why you hate MS? Because the general public says to hate MS.  

Hmm, and here I thought it was because of their shitty software through the years, the monopol they try to get on everything and their generally shady business methods.

[§ôµÏG®ïñD]

Originally posted by Titan
God I hate M$. Don\'t they have enough money?

It\'s not about money, it\'s about control. They want their paws in everything and anything they can.

[videoholic]

It\'s funny how sometimes no matter what people do, you see them as evil and hate them.

THey developed a file system.

They have a patent on the file system.

THey have put this file system in millions of computers.



THe digital camera industry in order to make it streamline with computers of today decide to use that file system.

Why shouldn\'t they get paid?



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It\'s like building a railroad.  Say dude 1 puts rail road tracks from Maine to Florida.  He takes people up and down the tracks and charges money for it.  But then dude 2 builds a trolley.  He only wants to go from North Carolina to South Carolina.  

"Hey, there are tracks there!!!  May as well use them since they are already there."

I\'m guessing dude 1 who laid the tracks would be a little pissed that someone else is making money on his tracks and not helping pay for the tracks he built.

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I\'m willing to bet that 3 1/2 floppies that come preformatted are paying.  I remember back when they were more expensive than unformatted.  I always assumed it was because of the formatting process, but this could certainly be the cause as well.

[§ôµÏG®ïñD]

Tell me vid, what methods did they use to build this file system. What did they base it off?

[GmanJoe]

MS is infamous for its bullying business tactics. Hence the lawsuits in Europe and America (well, sort of).

Bill Gates knew he\'d be unpopular so he gave away billions to charity...and made sure everyone knew about it. Publicity and charity = lemmings saying "what a nice guy". He can\'t buy my opinion.

[videoholic]

Originally posted by §ôµÏG®ïñD
Tell me vid, what methods did they use to build this file system. What did they base it off?

I don\'t know and I don\'t care.

Fact is his operating system is what made it widespread over the world.

[GmanJoe]

People are upset that only now, since 1976, that it will cost a fee. Although these digital memory cards just got mainstream about 5 years ago.

My opinion on this matter is this : it\'s MS\'s patent. They can charge you. BUT....they should have done it before.

But look on the bright side - it\'ll only cost you an extra 25 cents per card.

[videoholic]

Actually I think the price is the only thing I have issue with.  THat is one hell of a lot of cards.  I can\'t imagine they need to charge more than a nickel.