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Everybody shops for the best filesystem around that they can use. The problem is, licensing is a problem.

In other times, the industry would solve this by creating a standard for metadata interchange, but one of the biggest players gets a too big to ignore amount of revenue from FAT, and is able to block any attempt at standardizing.



Licensing is a problem for SOME formats.

ZFS, ext4, and plenty of others used by BSDs and Linux distros have no licensing issues.

Also, if any player cared to win the filesystem war, they'd open up their spec royalty-free.




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