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Re: Microsoft acquired SysInternals?
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Dave Korn wrote:
> On 12 November 2006 05:53, Robert Pendell wrote:
>
>
>> Since the older software is still under the older license do you guys
>> think it would be safe for me to re-distribute the software on my own site?
>
> No. Neither license permits redistribution.
>
Ahh... OK. Never did read through the original license agreement.
Thanks for letting me know about that.
>> On a, sort of, unreleated note here. Did anyone notice that NTFSDOS
>> disappeared? I still have an older copy of it. The read only version
>> but that has always worked out fine. Can't find it on the "new"
>> sysinternals site.
>
> I didn't notice that, but I did spot something about how they weren't going
> to support the entire tool range. I see TDIMon is missing as well. Ah,
> here's the rationale for not migrating NTFSDOS:
>
> http://blogs.technet.com/sysinternals/archive/2006/10/30/sysinternals-site-mig
> ration.aspx
>
> Downloads: We will be migrating most Sysinternals tools to Microsoft.Com
> Downloads which has additional bandwidth for a better end-user experience. At
> Mark?s direction, we are not going to be migrating 100% of the tools for one
> of the following reasons:
>
> 1. It only worked on Win9x or DOS ? the number of downloads didn?t justify
> the migration. These were eventually going to be removed from Sysinternals
> anyway.
>
Well that explains alot. I love NTFSDOS though and use it for
file-recovery purposes. I guess I can see where they were going with it
though.
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