Re: Buying a Seagate hard drive? - note this....

The carbonbased lifeform John Hasler inspired alt.os.linux with:
Theo writes:
I'm pretty sure there must be a license agreement. MS tried to get money
from companies that were using FAT16 too, so why would they not do the
same with NTFS?

Distributing code that reads and writes the format is different from
selling disks formatted in it.

Afaik, they do not "give" anything away. There's always a catch.

Theo
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