fedora official ntfs support

Szakacsits Szabolcs szaka at sienet.hu
Thu Jan 15 09:34:49 UTC 2004


> > > Why the fedora project don't support NTFS?
>
> Because NTFS is a closed file system protected by patients. 

Nobody ever could point out any patent. The existens of NTFS patents is
getting round without anybody ever checking the facts.

AFAIK, Red Hat's statement is "we are checking out" for about 2 years.

> Red Hat is a US corporation and as such cannot safely support it.

So they have an agreement with Microsoft about FAT usage? We know it has
patents.

	Szaka





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