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 > -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list