Microsoft’s file system patent upheld | CNET News.com

Dopo un iniziale rifiuto, alla fine il filesystem FAT è stato “patentato”.

dal sito MS

# A license for manufacturers of certain consumer electronics devices—Pricing for this license is $0.25 per unit for each of the following types of devices that use removable solid state media to store data:

* Portable digital still cameras
* Portable digital video cameras
* Portable digital still/video cameras
* Portable digital audio players
* Portable digital video players
* Portable digital audio and video players
* Multifunction printers
* Electronic photo frames
* Electronic musical instruments
* Standard televisions

Pricing for this license is $0.25 per unit with a cap on total royalties of $250,000 per licensee. Pricing for other device types can be negotiated with Microsoft.

Come suggeriscono su /., perchè non si adotta un file system ISO per mass storage? Un po’ come l’ISO9660 in lettura e scruttura.