Fedora LiveCD : Looking for Betatesters - Port of redhat 9.0 base to fedora core 1

[Colin Charles]

On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 19:21, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 09:52, Colin Charles wrote:
> > If its not too much to ask, the Fedora kernel should be re-rolled for
> > some NTFS support, so that we can also have ntfsresize on there (though
> > those two may be independent of each other, I'm not certain).
> 
> Fedora is an USA based project.
> The USA have Software Patents (which is a true horror).
> 
> NTFS is patent encumbered...
> 
> Hence, it is asking too much, right now, unfortunately. :|

Hmm, Debian is a USA based project, and Knoppix, it's spin-off is based
in Germany.

> Maybe if you add your help to ending Software Patents everywhere? :)

So, is this software patent thing really an issue? ntfsresize is kind of
handy (lots of PCs tend to have it taking up the entire disk these
days!) to have around, methinks.
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