Subject: Re: fedora official ntfs support

[Marc Schwartz]

On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 09:35, William Hooper wrote:
> Szakacsits Szabolcs said:
> >
> > On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, William Hooper wrote:
> >>
> >> And the little fact that FAT was actually documented and the
> >> undocumented
> >> NTFS
> >
> > NTFS is documented,
> >
> > 	http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ntfs/index.html
> 
> Oh?
> 
> http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ntfs/help/about.html
> " Microsoft hasn't released any documentation for NTFS. These documents
> have been pieced together partly by carefully reading all the SDKs and
> Windows help but mostly by reverse-engineering the filesystem."


Right, and under most proprietary software licenses, reverse engineering
is a prohibited activity, placing one in breach of the agreement. 

Hence, another litigation risk for RH/FC.

Marc