I don't have anything against Netdrive, but I want to consider things that sum up to the community and platform. This means to have something that allows derivative work and that can be freely improved/modified by anybody. A Netdrive plugin can be open source, but sadly the whole Netdrive platform it is not. It does not mean that Netdrive is good or bad, it just a closed platform.
If the NTFS driver from Mensys get open sourced, it can be a good example of how to create a driver for eComStation and became part of the
Open Source drivers we already have for this platform.
And also, why let NTFS.IFS die? why just don't give the source code and allow it to be at least a development sample source code.