Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 26th Aug 2009 17:56 UTC
The Finnish company behind the open-source file system NTFS-3G, Tuxera, has announced it has signed a confidential intellectual-property agreement with Microsoft about creating a Linux exFAT driver which they will sell to Linux OEMs. They are in talks with Microsoft about an open source exFAT driver.
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2006-09-30
I second that - I'd love to see an international agreement where any technology becomes an open standard or part of an open standard, people must be allowed to implement it without paying royalties. Its these 'agreements' that create walled gardens and stifle innovation and interoperability - entrench existing monopolies and create new ones. "
Business is business...
Still, anything that isn't open is *not* a standard, but an enforced monopoly. It does not deserve the name standard.
Couldn't they just use BFS anyway ?