« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Copyright issues  (Read 589 times)

Paladin9

  • VIP
  • Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 696
  • Kudos: 263
Copyright issues
« on: 28 January 2003, 21:19 »
Is it true that Apple copyrighted there disk format for floppys and cds so no one else can support it?  Someone told me this who thinks this it the reason that Windoze does not read mac formatted disks.  Can someone explain this becuase I have trouble believing it.  (I also found that linux can not read mac formatted disks!... At least Red Hat can not.)
Logged
_________________________________________________
 
To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination

psyjax

  • VIP
  • Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 1,871
  • Kudos: 55
Copyright issues
« Reply #1 on: 28 January 2003, 21:28 »
quote:
Originally posted by Paladin9:
Is it true that Apple copyrighted there disk format for floppys and cds so no one else can support it?  Someone told me this who thinks this it the reason that Windoze does not read mac formatted disks.  Can someone explain this becuase I have trouble believing it.  (I also found that linux can not read mac formatted disks!... At least Red Hat can not.)


That's odd, RH 8 can mount my HFS+ partition with the aid of a little utilitie whose name I forgot grrr...

In any case, there are 3rd party apps for windoze that mount HFS disks, so I don't think it's a copyright issue. I just think M$ is a bastard.
Logged
Psyjax! I RULEZZZZ!!! HAR HAR HAR

slave

  • Member
  • **
  • Posts: 1,136
  • Kudos: 0
    • http://www.fuckmicrosoft.com
Copyright issues
« Reply #2 on: 28 January 2003, 21:40 »
RH8 can't mount many things out of the box, like NTFS filesystems.  It requires a kernel recompile I think.  As for HFS+ I have no idea since I've never even used OS X.
Logged

Paladin9

  • VIP
  • Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 696
  • Kudos: 263
Copyright issues
« Reply #3 on: 28 January 2003, 10:21 »
What the hell is HR8?  Is HFS the unix disk format that osx can use??
Logged
_________________________________________________
 
To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination

voidmain

  • VIP
  • Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 5,605
  • Kudos: 184
    • http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/
Copyright issues
« Reply #4 on: 28 January 2003, 10:28 »
RH8 = Red Hat Linux 8.0
Logged
Someone please remove this account. Thanks...

psyjax

  • VIP
  • Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 1,871
  • Kudos: 55
Copyright issues
« Reply #5 on: 28 January 2003, 10:49 »
HFS and HFS+ is the standard Apple file system
Logged
Psyjax! I RULEZZZZ!!! HAR HAR HAR
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »