fedora official ntfs support

Andy Green fedora at warmcat.com
Thu Jan 15 09:46:42 UTC 2004


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On Thursday 15 January 2004 09:34, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> > > > Why the fedora project don't support NTFS?
> >
> > Because NTFS is a closed file system protected by patients.
>
> Nobody ever could point out any patent. The existens of NTFS patents is
> getting round without anybody ever checking the facts.
>
> AFAIK, Red Hat's statement is "we are checking out" for about 2 years.

Redhat folks said pretty plainly on the list they don't want to hear about 
nVidia closed driver problems because all of the pieces are not available for 
them to work with.  I guess it is the same with NTFS.  As much as the 
technical issue I think you'll find a deep antipathy towards investing in 
these proprietary and closed formats and taking on the burden of officially 
supporting them, they correctly view it as a losing proposition.  So don't 
hold your breath.  There are advantages to indirecting the file access 
through samba anyway.

- -Andy

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