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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