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Much before MS did that, macOS had builtin exFAT support presumably licensed from MS, Paragon had exFAT support for android for a one time fee which works with

Much before MS did that, macOS had builtin exFAT support presumably licensed from MS, Paragon had exFAT support for android for a one time fee which works with other file manager apps(also licensed from MS), On Linux Exfat-utils enabled support for exFAT(open-source implementation). Has there been any changes to these since MS has opened the license to exFAT?

m000 6y ago
Third-party exFAT support did exist before 2019, but vendors had to pay a licence fee to Microsoft. Apple apparently paid the fee. Regarding Linux, exfat-utils only provided limited functionality. The kernel mainline lacked a native exFAT driver. Mounting exFAT volumes was possible only through FUSE (with all its shortcomings).
adrian_b 6y ago
The change is that now there is an exFAT driver included in the Linux kernel. Therefore, if you have a recent Linux kernel, you no longer need to install a user-mode driver for exFAT and the kernel driver has better performance.