The last thing we want to see is some, "Oops, we didn't mean to do this" brouhaha six months later. Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, did have an important message to Paragon, when he said, "The one other thing I do want when there's big new pieces like this being added is to ask you to make sure that everything is signed-off properly and that there is no internal confusion about the GPLv2 inside Paragon, and that any legal people, etc., are all aware of this all and are on board.
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And given Linux system administrators have been struggling with NTFS for decades, this new driver could be a game-changer. This move makes Paragon look almost like a hero to some, bringing much-needed relief to those who have to deal with NTFS filesystems with Linux.
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My guess is that the effort to keep this up (probably having to patch kernels on a customer-by-customer basis) wasn't profitable for Paragon.īut then comes the credibility the company gains by submitting the driver to the official Linux kernel. On top of that, prior to Paragon adding its NTFS driver to the mainline kernel, it was having to maintain this driver out of tree for its customers. With exFAT pulling much of the focus, it's clear that the profitability of keeping an NTFS driver as a proprietary solution was less and less viable. The next issue facing NTFS is that it's not exactly the darling of the industry it once was. In an IT world that is more and more diverse, practically everything needs to work with everything else. Along with the massive rise of containers (which also depend on Linux), it became clear that NTFS wasn't going to continue holding court as the ruler of filesystems. Next, Linux has become the single most widely used operating system in cloud deployments. Warning: This is speculation on my part, but I think it's pretty obvious.įirst, Microsoft joined the Open Invention Network to help protect Linux and open-source technology. So what were the events that led to this addition?
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