I think the issue here is the context... Paragon has had a rocky relationship with the Linux community in the past, for example their whiny reaction to exFAT being proposed for mainline a few months ago, so I think in the eyes of The Register there is a certain amount of inherent mistrust in Paragon proposing their NTFS driver for the kernel---shortly after going on the offensive against another formerly-commercial FS going mainline.

That said, I think the tension is more imagined than real, as the LKML doesn't really seem to have responded any more negatively than they do to most other patches.

example: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/the-e...