Quote Originally Posted by gigirock View Post
and to be 'open' to the other means to be ready to share other people format.
No it doesn't! It means you are happy to share your own with others - the problems arise when others refuse to share with you, hence the VFAT patent case for MS vs. TomTom

Anyway, mine alert is for the developers, How many people will not use openvix because their USB hdd can't be filled of tv shows recorded with the enigma2 decoder ?

At the end you have only to include fuse module in the kernel....
There is also a free ext3/4 driver for MS Windows.