On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:32:53 -0500, John DeCarlo <johndecarlo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: [snip] > > BTW, I have read through a couple hundred emails from this list and not > > found any other references to this problem. Can it be that nobody else > > needs NTFS access from FC3? Is that why it's turned off by default? > > It is simply a tribute to the volume of messages on this list. If you > go to the archives for the list at: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/ you will find many, > many references to support for NTFS. > > Why is it off by default? Because Microsoft doesn't release all the > details, so there are trade secret or other related issues that scare > organizations off. Especially big ones like Red Hat. It's not fear. "The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free software" (http://fedora.redhat.com). Fedora, as distributed, is (or aims to be) 100% free. Copyright issues prevent the inclusion of NTFS software into the official distribution.
