Subj : Re: OS Programmers
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Patrick  McDonnell
Date : Fri Aug 20 2004 03:01 am

mjt wrote:

> 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

It has always amused me that support for FAT32 is better than that for UFS,
considering UFS is open source.

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