[fab] final rough draft

[Tom Callaway]

On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 21:40 +0530, Rahul wrote:

> > In the past, Red Hat's counsel has been uncomfortable with enabling NTFS 
> > support in the kernel due to the fact that the implementation is well 
> > patented by Microsoft.
> 
> We dont know it is "Well patented". All I heard is that there are 
> potential patent issues and the potential is more than other random 
> pieces of code but lets not state this as if its a fact and paint 
> ourselves into a corner.

Well, I _do_ know it is well patented. Who wants to become tainted by
reading the patents? :)

However, it might be better to just say:

"In the past, Red Hat's counsel has been uncomfortable with enabling
NTFS support in the kernel."

> A link to OIN please. Might also throw in the point that OIN was the 
> reason we decided to include Mono.

Seconded.

~spot