Subj : Re: OS Programmers
To   : comp.os.linux
From : mjt
Date : Thu Aug 19 2004 06:42 pm

Michael Satterwhite wrote:

>> ... personally, and i know a lot of people would
>> agree, who CARES if it supports it :)
> 
> There are a lot of people currently running Windows who are potential Linux
> users; THEY care a lot. As someone who would like to see more people
> switch to Linux, I care.

.... but NTFS is a moving target, so why should someone
take their time to CONTINUE to reverse engineer it so
that a few folks can R/W to NTFS from Linux?  

there are two very good solutions for sharing data
between Linux and winders:
* create a fat32
* use a virtual machine (or crossover)

Linux developers need to focus their time on Linux
specific filesystems, not a moving target for some 
other platform
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