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Microsoft has retreated from its recent threat to take action against Jeff Merkey´s Timpanogas Research Group for providing read-write access to NTFS partitions.

"Microsoft has apologized and withdrawn their statements," Merkey wrote in a post to a Linux kernel developer mailing list. "We are very happy this thread ended on a happy note, instead of in court. Microsoft will take no action against us for NTFS development on Linux, which can now proceed without concern."

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