Ouch!

Ian Malone ibm21 at cam.ac.uk
Thu Jan 12 19:11:02 UTC 2006


Mike McCarty wrote:

> Tim wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>>Tim:
>>
>>
>>>>They're just a storage medium, so they use what's put on them.  It's up
>>>>to the computers using them as to how.  We don't have "FAT" hard drives,
>>>>CDs, etc.  We simply have drive and discs.
>>
>>
>>Mike McCarty:
>>
>>
>>>This is untrue. Many discs and pseudo-discs come pre-formatted.
>>
>>
>>Some do, some don't.  That doesn't mean that they're a FAT disk, it's
>>just a disk with an obese filesystem on it.  You're, generally, not
>>prevented from reformatting them, either.
> 
> 
> Certainly true. I wasn't trying to imply otherwise. However,
> the reason I wrote that is that I believe that MicroSoft is
> trying to get money from people producing preformatted discs
> and pseudo-discs. That certainly seems to be the case from
> perusing their website.
> 
> 

This might (be ever so slightly) an upside from the OSS point of view:
low margin USB stick manufactures might find it simpler just to tell
the user to format them, which opens the door to providing them with
a choice.  It may even create a little anti-proprietary ire.

-- 
imalone




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