On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 16:50, Martin Mewes wrote:
That's not the point.
Kernel-Support goes for incorporating a GPLed kind of NTFS-reading.
Are you really sure that Mandrake or SuSE gave money to M$ in order to
put this into their distro?
Being based in the US, Red Hat has to worry about US patents.
The other distros you mentioned are both based in Europe.
It'll be interesting to see how the situation changes with the arrival
of European software patents.
Dave