Re: can microsoft do this?
From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/05/04
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Date: 5 Nov 2004 04:20:47 GMT
On 4 Nov 2004 19:32:55 -0800, Peter staggered into the Black Sun and
said:
It's obvious English isn't your first language. This is what I *think*
you meant:
> [I] installed redhat and windows xp [on] a single harddisk on two
> different partitions. Redhat linux [wrote] some data on Windows's
> partition by a bug/accident, so Windows XP [became] very unstable.
> Can Microsoft [take] Redhat [to] court [for] this?
Why would Microsoft care? They already have your money[0]. Anything
that happens to you, your data, your hardware, or your family pet after
they get their money is Not Their Problem. Read the End-User Licensing
Agreement you should've gotten with your copy of 'DozeXP. It contains
(in lawyer-speak) statements like "This software is not real-time or
fault-tolerant and should not be used for industrial process control or
anything really complicated. Unpredictable behavior may occur if a gnat
farts near this software."
Also, when you mount an NTFS partition, you should always mount it with
-ro so that it's read-only. All Redhat/Fedora releases have their ntfs
kernel modules compiled without write support. If you compiled a
kernel, enabled "NTFS write support [dangerous]", mounted an NTFS
partition read-write, and something bad happened... you were warned.
The FAT32 support in Linux is, AFAICT, stable, works fine for reading
and writing, and has not given me any problems for ~5 years.
> If this really happen and microsoft successfully charge redhat, then i
> think micrsoft must request a huge money for punishment. Then how
> redhat prevent for closing??
Redhat scribbled on a Microsoft partition. Why would Microsoft sue
Redhat over that? Wouldn't *you* sue Redhat instead?
[0] Unless you bought the CD from a commercial pirating organization, or
downloaded an ISO from Kazaa Lite, at which point Microsoft wouldn't
care because you're a {thief,copyright infringer,pirate}.
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