Windows is telling me right now that my 4.0gb Sandisk has a
capacity of 4,079,943,680 bytes ....
.... or 3.79 gigabytes.
Mind you, the box does ALSO tell me roughly how many images i can
expect to store on it.
Unless any of us would NOT have paid what we paid for a Compact
Flash (and what alternative would we have had?) if we'd known the
hideous truth, this looks to me like opportunism.
When I look at the "defendants" above, I'd have thought any
half-decent lawyer could argue that they are in a powerful enough
position within the industry for their decimal definition to
constitute an industry standard for Compact Flash (irrespective of
how Microsoft measure a gb).
But then, the terms of these settlements indemnify them against any
further claims on this issue, even on the basis of nw knowledge
that might come to light later, or even if someone thinks up
another way to bring a claim later. So maybe they see the
settlement as insurance.
It happens whenever you have a success. Steven Spielberg once said
the only movie no one ever attempted to sue him over was "1941"
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