On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:32:53 -0500, John DeCarlo <johndecarlo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.