ntfs kernel module

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 26 October 2004 19:26, Dan Hollis wrote:
>On 26 Oct 2004, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On Oct 26, 2004, Dan Hollis <goemon at anime.net> wrote:
>> > The excuses for not including ntfs have varied over the years,
>> > always changing. The decision not to include ntfs-readonly is an
>> > ideological issue and not a technical or legal one.
>>
>> If you're so sure there isn't a legal issue, I'm sure you wouldn't
>> mind signing an agreement with Red Hat, becoming personally
>> responsible for any liability resulting from shipping a kernel
>> with the NTFS module enabled, right?
>
>are there such agreements for fat and rdp and samba, which microsoft
>stated they did hold patents on?
>
>-Dan

ISTR the fat patent was thrown out a couple of months back, as 
everyone expected it to be.  rdp and samba? No knowledge other than 
its been a cat and mouse game with M$ trying to maintain 
compatibility for samba.

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