[plug] M$ to patent FAT and charge for it

[Steve Boak]

This sounds trivial, as in we just stop using FAT, right?

Unfortunately not - as I understand, being a long time digital camera user,  
almost all digital cameras and associated card readers etc use the FAT file 
system. Trying to change to another file system when there is currently 
literally hundreds of millions of devices out there based on FAT already is 
not going to be easy.

M$ has a captive market.

Steve