From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 17 14:22:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FDEF14FCB for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 14:22:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA24374; Mon, 17 May 1999 14:22:55 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd024306; Mon May 17 14:22:48 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA26815; Mon, 17 May 1999 14:22:48 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199905172122.OAA26815@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Nt source licenses... To: vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca (Tim Vanderhoek) Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 21:22:47 +0000 (GMT) Cc: dlombardo@excite.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990516124441.A43261@mAd> from "Tim Vanderhoek" at May 16, 99 12:44:42 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > [-current -=> -chat] > > [Re: stealing an NTFS implementation after getting an NT source > license] > > On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 01:49:09PM +0100, Dean Lombardo wrote: > > > > OK - perhaps I should rephrase it - they *can* sue, but they are not > > very likely to do so without good reason. Do you really think that > > Besides that, even if they did sue, while it would certainly have some > negative effects, we'd get a lot of useful publicity. That, and putting the theing in would be like dipping a vestal virgin in raw sewage. 8-|. NTFS is pretty trivial, even if you need to write to it... the only real roadblock is how VOP_ABORTOP is named as if it were a transaction abort, but coded to free cn_pnbuf's (dumb). The Helen Custer book and a ZIP driver are generally enough to allow you, with a working NT system, to see how the log files are laid out, such that you can write them safely. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message