[hemancuso]

I think this is fairly overblown, there are a fair number of FUSE for macOS forks out there with signing certificates.

I have kext signing certificate for ExpanDrive, Google has one for Google Filestream, I suspect many others have one as well. Rightfully, Apple doesn't hand them out as easily as they do with regular developer certificates, but if you want one and do a reasonable job representing that you're not going to panic end-user systems, you can get one too.

FUSE for macOS remains open source, fork it if you want. Benjamin merely decided not to work on it for free anymore and essentially providing bug fixes etc for those who pay for it.

Lastly - FUSE of macOS is not going to be around in the current form much longer. Apple has made it abundantly clear that Kernel Extensions are on the way out, and that macOS 10.15 will be the last release to fully support kexts without compromises. Check this slide from WWDC

https://imgur.com/a/EAzT6Ch

[khc]

What do you think future of fuse on macOS will be like?

[hemancuso]

I have no inside information but assuming they continue to expose the VFS layer they will very likely build a usermode extension framework that is quite like FUSE, but supported by the OS and maintained by Apple.

[ehutch79]

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/702/

[ehutch79]

https://developer.apple.com/system-extensions/