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Re:Ask HN: How to get contributions to open source project by voltagex_ on Thursday September 22, 2016 @06:47PM (#12560978)
The other interesting part is that it's a very niche product in itself. If you go off the theory that most contributors are trying to solve a problem for themselves, then people who need an FS driver are

a) rare

b) likely to be making a commercial product, in which case the main competitor to WinFSP isn't Dokan(y), but CBFS.

The author of Expandrive could probably add more to this - his product is based off CBFS.

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Re:Ask HN: How to get contributions to open source project by billziss on Thursday September 22, 2016 @06:55PM (#12561022)
That is a very good insight and one that I agree with.

BTW, I am not really trying to make WinFsp into a product. I simply created it because I am a file system writer myself and wanted a stable FSD for Windows.

I was originally planning to put it under the BSD, but I spent too much time and effort to simply give it away.

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