On Sunday 17 June 2007 16:19, S Glasoe wrote: > On Saturday June 16 2007 4:28:00 pm Alexey Eremenko wrote: > > hi all ! > > > > I'm thinking - would it be possible to install openSUSE on NTFS > > partition, to prevent repartitioning, so more Windows users will be > > able to try out SUSE Linux ? > > #1 reason this won't happen anytime soon is because Microsoft does > _not_ publish the specifications for NTFS and would only share them > with companies that are willing to pay extremely large amounts of > money on a continuing basis with all kinds of Non-Disclosure > Agreements (NDAs) in place. These companies would most likely have to > pay a royalty/license fee for every product sold that utilized this > knowledge too.
That's true, but any technology that's not potted in epoxy can be reverse-engineered. Presumably that's what the NTFS-3G team (<http://www.ntfs-3g.org/>) did, since it apparently works well for both reading and writing NTFS volumes from Linux (and other OSes). > ... > > -- > Stan Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
