Ouch!

[John Summerfied]

James Wilkinson wrote:
> John Summerfied wrote:
> 
>>My camera does 8.3. At present I'm using a 512 Mb card; I don't know 
>>what happens if I go bigger, what's the next size limit that matters to FAT?
> 
> 
> 2 GB, for what it's worth.
> 
> I'd be very surprised  if you couldn't just put FAT32 on it, though.
> 
> 
>>>I'd like to see an open format make it, but I'm not sure there are
>>>any on the horizon.
>>
>>If they're allergic to GPL, there are some BSD filesystems to choose from.
> 
> 
> Um. I don't think you *can* GPL formats, as such. The only way to limit

I was thinking more of ext2 and other Linux filesystems. Using existing 
code is way easier than writing one's own.


> other people's use of formats (if they code everything from scratch to
> the format) is with a patent.

I would expect the algorithm rather than the code to be subject to 
patents. Though, given the use of patents law to "patent" 
naturally-occuring substances, one might wonder.




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