Greg Bailey wrote:
David G. Miller wrote:
John Summerfield <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I vaguely recall that IBM wanted to open source HPFS at one time and
was told by Microsquish that they wouldn't allow it. Funny that IBM
went one better and open sourced JFS instead.
I'm in kind of the same boat as you since I was an OS/2 user before I
switched to Linux. I think the HPFS information was from a discussion
as to why IBM couldn't open source OS/2 as a means of continuing
support. Remember, we're talking about the same Microsquish that has
attempted to patent the FAT file system. I'd be very surprised if
NTFS wasn't IP encumbered. Debian tends to be very paranoid as to
technical features and stability but they don't have the financial
exposure that Red Hat has when it comes to infringing IP.
Despite protestations from the lamentable SCO, IBM owns JFS, which
originated in AIX.
However, the port was from OS/2.
Cheers,
Dave
Could it be that Red Hat doesn't enable NTFS in their kernels because
they simply don't want to support NTFS?
That is almost certainly the case; it's the reason it hasn't supported
resiserfs, jfs, xfs etc.
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Cheers
John
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