'FUSE for macOS 3.9 can still be freely bundled with commercial software. This was the reason why Fleischer stopped releasing the source code and also changed the licence. Asking for donations for a component of an application that users already paid for is not the right approach.' Many end users are not aware they are using FUSE or know which service it provides. Most of the time FUSE is installed silently by third-party applications that expose a virtual file system. 'In order to take FUSE for OS X to the next level, I would like to spend more time working on it, but this won't be possible without being compensated for my work,' he explained at the time.Īmong the issues, he told us, is that 'FUSE is not an end user product. The problem? Fleischer was doing most of the development work for free. Today FUSE for macOS is used by many big internet companies, among them cloud storage and infrastructure-as-a-service providers and even popular social networks.'

'A lot of time has passed since then and the number of applications relying on FUSE for macOS has grown rapidly. MacFUSE, as the project was originally called, had already been abandoned for some time and it did not support 64-bit kernels, so I started tinkering with the code,' Fleischer told The Register. I was relying on NTFS-3G, a popular FUSE file system, and wanted to use Mac OS X Snow Leopard's new 64-bit kernel. I was studying computer science and working on FUSE started out as a hobby. A tale of exposure bucks: How to lose a dev in 8 years 'That's not the standard Developer ID certificate every registered developer gets,' said Fleischer. A further complication facing developers thinking of forking the last open source version is that running FUSE on macOS requires a kernel extension signing certificate.

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