Am 26.09.2013 00:10, schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman: > Please stick to technical discussions about the code on the kernel > mailing lists. Legal discussions can be left up to the lawyers, of > which we are not. Hmm, but I would like to know if someone has to fear getting owned by Microsoft if he would use that driver. Giving the rumours about Linux companies having to pay Microsoft and giving the fact that all of those licencees seem to don't have to speak about what Microsoft claims patents for and for what they have to pay, I obviously think adding that driver to Linux and thus making exFAT more general accepted is a very bad idea. Of course, I'm not a lawyer too, but as a responsible Linux developer, I should at least be able to warn other parities when they approach me and want to use exFAT. Doing such without the maybe necessary license might drive small companies into the ground because most of them are unable to even think about having the money needed to talk with Microsoft lawyers in front of a court. Regards, Alexander Holler _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
