On Sat, 15 May 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> On Sat, 15 May 1999, Narvi wrote:
>
> >
> > On Fri, 14 May 1999, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
> >
> > > At 3:51 PM +0700 5/12/99, Ustimenko Semen wrote:
> > > > Are we going to get this license? I am interested in NTFS
> > > > source code a lot...
> > >
> > > I would be very careful about getting an NT source license if
> > > your intention is to write NTFS support for some other operating
> > > system. Microsoft is not doing this licensing for the benefit of
> > > mankind, they are doing it to attract college-type users to
> > > sticking with WinNT over open-source unixes.
> > >
> > > The last thing we need is some code from WinNT which causes us
> > > to be sued by Microsoft...
> > >
> >
> > It would probably be very unwise for the project to get get the licence.
> >
> > However, considering that we support loadable filesystem modules, somebody
> > adventurous enough can get the licence and write a (separate distributed,
> > possibly even only as binary) module.
> >
> > Downloading a kld module from the net definately does not "taint" your
> > mind.
>
> I'm unsure what the fuss is over, don't we have a kld to read NTFS already?
>
How about writing?
> Is there really anything special about NT that we NEED to learn that
> hasn't been done _better_ by Sun, SGI or Digital? :)
>
No, not really.
> -Alfred
>
Sander
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