D'après Slashdot, Microsoft va demander 0.25$ par clé USB, Appareil photo, etc... avce un plafond de 200.000$ par fabricant ( autrement dit, dommage pour les petits)
Ce commentaire sur Sashdot est malheureusement on ne peut plus pertinent :
What does that mean to companies that ***spam*** stuff like USB flash drives or CF cards? They'll obviously have to pay royalties, of course,
Yep, they will pricing has been set to 25c per unit [dpreview.com].
Utterly crippling in the low margin, high volume USB storage market (especially at the low end)
and that means a mass migration to a new filesystem to avoid such payments.
And exactly what filesystem could that be? That is supported out of the box by 95% of desktop PCs?
This - if anyone was still wondering why a monopoly is so dangerous in the hands of an immoral company like MS.
You can use your overwhelming advantage in one market (desktop PCs) to exert influence in another.
But what new FS will that be? FAT32? EXT2/3?
Fat32? Patents cover it.
EXT2/3? Get real. Who wants to install 3rd party drivers every time you plugin your USB device?