On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Paul Iadonisi wrote: > The biggest problem with some of the aforementioned technologies is > not so much reverse engineering (though I hear the Sorenson codec was > b**ch to figure out, which is why it took so long), but patents. Does anyone know of any existing NTFS patent numbers? I know of patent numbers for FAT and CIFS. I've never found an NTFS patent though. And i've looked for years. > Nevertheless, the point is that, yes, Adaptec seems to have a clue > when it comes to releasing GPLed drivers (not just specs) for their > controllers. It took adaptec something like 5-6 years to come to their senses. Most of whats in aic7xxx was reverse engineered with little or no docs. -Dan