On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, William Hooper wrote: > > > > No need to work with it but apparently as the demand still shows, IMHO > > Red Hat could give an official answer to their customers. > > Customers? What customers? Red Hat? Oh, you mean Fedora. Hernan asked about Fedora (see subject), everybody answered "because Red Hat ...". > Then you are looking for the Objectives page: > > "Build the operating system exclusively from open source software." The NTFS driver is GPL'd. If there were indeed patents as claimed but never pointed out then in _some_ countries this is of course showstopper. So what does fedora.redhat.com say officially? Szaka