This is not about Apple vs Linux. And regarding closed-source, you missed this part of my post: "
Most software is better as closed-source (since it gives financial incentive to perfect the software). But something as life-critical as a file-system driver to store all of your precious DATA is NEVER good as closed-source! A filesystem NEEDS to be open and needs to have a lot of developers looking at it to ensure it is safe and stable. THAT reason alone is a great reason to
FOREVER AVOID PARAGON like the plague!"
Filesystem drivers are not trivial software. If Microsoft Word has a bug, you may lose a document. If a filesystem has a bug, you may lose everything.
Paragon is self-implementing a closed-source filesystem driver with no outside review of their bugs. Terrible idea right there, and Paragon has a long history of their drivers corrupting filesystems. I quoted examples on the previous page.
And they cannot be compared to a huge closed-source behemoth like Apple or Microsoft, which both have massive developer teams and testing teams. Apple has actually open-sourced their HFS code right here, and as you can see if you click a few of the C files, filesystem code is very complex:
https://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-344/bsd/hfs/.
In fact,
Apple realizes the danger of even
them trying to implement NTFS, so they've
only written a read-only NTFS driver built into macOS. You
can enable write-support on that driver via a secret command-line tweak, but it will corrupt the drive within a day of use.
Tuxera is a smart company. They open-sourced their driver and gave it to Linux as NTFS-3G years before they ever made a commercial variant, and thanks to that they have the entire Linux community watching every line of code of their driver. Countless bugs have been found and fixed throughout the years thanks to NTFS-3G being open-source. It is the most stable non-Microsoft driver for NTFS in the world. That is a fact, not fiction or opinion.
And don't forget that their NTFS driver and other filesystem drivers are powering Android's NTFS filesystem support, as I wrote: "
Every second, 3 devices powered by Tuxera drivers are shipped out from factories worldwide. In other words, every month, about 7.9 MILLION devices are shipped out, containing Tuxera drivers". That fact is yet another huge endorsement of Tuxera:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuxera#Tuxera_NTFS.
You are very ignorant and any further replies are a complete and utter waste of my time, regardless of what you decide to spew next and no matter how wrong it is too. I barely visit MacRumors anymore.
