On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 22:43 -0500, Tom Callaway wrote: > I'd just say that in the past, Red Hat's lawyers were uncomfortable with > enabling NTFS support in the kernel due to the fact that the > implementation is well patented by Microsoft, who has threatened in the > past to exercise their patent portfolio through litigation. Recently, > the kernel has become protected by the OSI (insert nice canned words > about what the OSI is), and we're currently considering (or we are) > enabling NTFS support in our kernels. > > *** We should just go ahead and have davej enable it for FC-6. OSI's got > our back on this one. Not that it's terribly useful without ntfsprogs > (and the most recent ntfs support is done entirely in userspace via > fuse), but it would shut up the idiots. *** Err... Not OSI, OIN. Damn acronyms! ~spot _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board-readonly mailing list fedora-advisory-board-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board-readonly
