[fab] final rough draft

Max Spevack mspevack at redhat.com
Tue Aug 15 16:19:29 UTC 2006


I'll get that stuff in.

--Max

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Tom Callaway wrote:

> 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
>
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