Many comments here show so much ignorance of Paragon, The Linux Foundation, and open source products. Conspiracy theories and backdoors everywhere, are favorite hobbies. Russians, Germans but no Chinese, Japanese or drug cartels this time?
To the beginners here, products of The Linux Foundation are released as open source code. This code can be examined, and modified, before it is compiled into binary code for computers to use. Most (all?) creators of this binary code specialize this open source code. Changes are made for different hardware, preferences and operating needs. Many code compilers remove stuff added by The Linux Foundation. There is at least one voluntary organization that proudly removes the "binary blobs;' added by The Linux Foundation.
Most compilers seem to add their own code to the open source product. This open source product is released every few days. The only organization that offers the compiled version of every open source Linux Kernel is Ubuntu. Every other group or organization cannot afford the time, skill & discipline needed to compile every bug-fix and change in the releases from The Linux Foundation. On their official Ubuntu web site, you have exactly 2,030 ready to run compiled Linux kernels waiting for you to download, right now, from "2016-04-06 08:00", to "2020-08-27 09:07".
Unknown to slow learners here, is that Microsoft has released it's commercial version to Linux coders, free of legal constraints, via the "Open Source Initiative". This explains Paragon's "initiative". The older 3G NTFS etc is facing being very useless. This has implications also for BTRFS & ZFS. We need more comparisons on these file systems, for reliability, RAID, defragmenting, speed, self-repair, indexing, encryption & compression.
To the beginners here, products of The Linux Foundation are released as open source code. This code can be examined, and modified, before it is compiled into binary code for computers to use. Most (all?) creators of this binary code specialize this open source code. Changes are made for different hardware, preferences and operating needs. Many code compilers remove stuff added by The Linux Foundation. There is at least one voluntary organization that proudly removes the "binary blobs;' added by The Linux Foundation.
Most compilers seem to add their own code to the open source product. This open source product is released every few days. The only organization that offers the compiled version of every open source Linux Kernel is Ubuntu. Every other group or organization cannot afford the time, skill & discipline needed to compile every bug-fix and change in the releases from The Linux Foundation. On their official Ubuntu web site, you have exactly 2,030 ready to run compiled Linux kernels waiting for you to download, right now, from "2016-04-06 08:00", to "2020-08-27 09:07".
Unknown to slow learners here, is that Microsoft has released it's commercial version to Linux coders, free of legal constraints, via the "Open Source Initiative". This explains Paragon's "initiative". The older 3G NTFS etc is facing being very useless. This has implications also for BTRFS & ZFS. We need more comparisons on these file systems, for reliability, RAID, defragmenting, speed, self-repair, indexing, encryption & compression.
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