From: "Deranged Mutant" <WlkngOwl@unix.asb.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 17:17:45 +0800
To: jfricker@vertexgroup.com (John F. Fricker)
Subject: Re: What remains to be done.
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On  8 Jul 96 at 18:04, John F. Fricker wrote:
[..]
> One of these days Microsoft will officially release NT's IFS SDK. A few
> "preliminary" and incomplete copies of a 1993 beta release do float around
> but for a mere $50K there's a company that will sell you the complete source
> for an IFS. It's a crime that Microsoft hasn't shipped this SDK yet as the
> Installable File System is one of the great powers of NT.
> 
> So, if someone is interested in coughing up the $50K I know a couple NT
> programmers just chomping at the bit to build cool IFS's like PGPDrive, etc.

Coughing up a mere $200-500 (depending on the cmpany) to write a few
freeware  drivers for Windows NT/95 or OS/2 is a bit much for poor 
hackers like myself.

A GNU/FSF project should be to develop freeware DDKs for Windows or 
OS/2.  There'd be many grateful people out there.

Rob
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