NTFS write support

Sergey Babkin babkin at verizon.net
Mon Feb 13 11:07:07 PST 2006


>From: John Nielsen <lists at jnielsen.net>

>> >http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
>>
>> Interesting. Though I'm pretty sure that MS is going to object
>> strongly to any usage of their drivers outside of their OS.
>> Donwload it quickly before the MS lawyers have shown up.
>
>Captive NTFS doesn't actually include any ntfs drivers.  The user must supply 
>their own copy (presumably obtained through legitimate means) which the 
>captive framework then uses.

Well, the problem is that the Microsoft's position is
going to be that there are no such legitimate means.
It's quite a popular belief among the software
licensing lawyers nowadays. AFAIK it has not been
tested in court, but do you have enough money
to afford a lawsuit with Microsoft?

-SB


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