[CentOS] Centos 5 will have full NTFS read write support?
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Tue Apr 3 08:21:24 UTC 2007
David G. Miller wrote:
> It wouldn't surprise me if NTFS was encumbered by some sort of Micro$oft
> intellectual property claim. This would be sufficient to cause Red Hat
> to not build their kernel with it even if all it takes to make it work
> is to enable the feature in the kernel build.
Debian's as paranoid as anyone, but it ships NTFS.
Additionally, I've never heard any claims regarding HPFS, and as I came
to Linux from OS/2, I think I'd remember such. And, RH has never, to my
recollection, shipped HPFS either.
> See one of the many flame wars over MP3 or some other IP encumbered
> technology as to why RH won't include it (and risk getting sued).
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
>
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Cheers
John
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