From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 16 2:39:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD82F1501B for ; Sun, 16 May 1999 02:39:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (haldjas.folklore.ee [172.17.2.1] (may be forged)) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.8/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA20023; Sun, 16 May 1999 12:38:09 +0300 (EEST) Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 12:38:09 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Garance A Drosehn , Ustimenko Semen , Luigi Rizzo , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Nt source licenses... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 15 May 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > On Sat, 15 May 1999, Narvi wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 14 May 1999, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > > > > > At 3:51 PM +0700 5/12/99, Ustimenko Semen wrote: > > > > Are we going to get this license? I am interested in NTFS > > > > source code a lot... > > > > > > I would be very careful about getting an NT source license if > > > your intention is to write NTFS support for some other operating > > > system. Microsoft is not doing this licensing for the benefit of > > > mankind, they are doing it to attract college-type users to > > > sticking with WinNT over open-source unixes. > > > > > > The last thing we need is some code from WinNT which causes us > > > to be sued by Microsoft... > > > > > > > It would probably be very unwise for the project to get get the licence. > > > > However, considering that we support loadable filesystem modules, somebody > > adventurous enough can get the licence and write a (separate distributed, > > possibly even only as binary) module. > > > > Downloading a kld module from the net definately does not "taint" your > > mind. > > I'm unsure what the fuss is over, don't we have a kld to read NTFS already? > How about writing? > Is there really anything special about NT that we NEED to learn that > hasn't been done _better_ by Sun, SGI or Digital? :) > No, not really. > -Alfred > Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message