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[Tom Callaway]

On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 22:43 -0500, Tom Callaway wrote:

> I'd just say that in the past, Red Hat's lawyers were uncomfortable with
> enabling NTFS support in the kernel due to the fact that the
> implementation is well patented by Microsoft, who has threatened in the
> past to exercise their patent portfolio through litigation. Recently,
> the kernel has become protected by the OSI (insert nice canned words
> about what the OSI is), and we're currently considering (or we are)
> enabling NTFS support in our kernels.
> 
> *** We should just go ahead and have davej enable it for FC-6. OSI's got
> our back on this one. Not that it's terribly useful without ntfsprogs
> (and the most recent ntfs support is done entirely in userspace via
> fuse), but it would shut up the idiots. ***

Err... Not OSI, OIN. Damn acronyms!

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