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Problems for the Linux kernel NTFS driver as author goes silent.These were the years Steve Ballmer described Linux as a cancer. These were the years when Microsoft's hyper-aggressive approach to other people's technologies saw it fined hundreds of millions of dollars for trying to squelch disk compression company Stac Electronics. It could not and would not stand the idea of anyone producing a better NTFS and gaining any sort of toehold in a market the company considered its exclusive territory.

Windows New Technology, with the New Technology File System, came out in 1993 as the first child of that battle.įor decades afterwards, Microsoft's policy was fiercely exclusionary towards all rivals, big or small. Why is NTFS proprietary in the first place? It came out of the OS/2 NT divorce with IBM, when the partners became enemies and wanted any advantage they could jealously guard. That sounds a ridiculous proposition for something the company has treated as one of its crown jewels, a centerpiece of its Windows strategy for both consumer and enterprise.

There is one way to get the expertise, motivation, resources and commitment to take on NTFS for Linux and make it golden for the long term: Microsoft. Here, it has taken decades to get it working properly, through the work of one key figure who's spent his working life in the file system sector. The miracle of open source isn't that it has taken over so much of IT, it's that the darn stuff survives at all.

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Of course you'd also need the time and energy to single-handedly cope with the fiery vortex of open source politics at the highest level, and the financial resources to do it all for free in a 24/7 world that needs its data NOW. You could, if only you knew NTFS internals backwards, write high performance kernel driver code. Anyone can pull the project from the repo, take over the reins, and rescue orphaned code.

Open source's primary defence against alien abduction et cetera is that, well, it's open.

Paragon linux file systems for windows alternative