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

John Hasler wrote:

Theo v. Werkhoven writes:
I wonder how much maxtor's paying MS for the "priviledge" of using
NTFS...

There is no reason they would have to pay them anything.
Don't Seagate own Maxtor ?
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