I agree too.Sorry, but I disagree.
But I have another reason : such a software on the same computer is a fantastic SECURITY HOLE !
It allows to write on protected files. I remember such a software for windows95 which allows to acces to ext2. Please don't spread this software ... and use reiserfs or better the new reiser4.
Until it broke, I used a driver InstalledFileSystem on OS/2 to access ext2 partitions and exchange files. I still use such an IFS to access FAT32 partitions from OS/2. Back when OS/2 was my primary OS, this made Linux MUCH more usable for me (especially before the HPFS write support was stable).
Nobody in their right mind sets up a multi-boot machine if it is really going to be multi-user on more than one of the OS's *AND* if users are going to be able to reboot it. Anybody who can reboot a multiboot machine is pretty much guaranteed to be the sysadmin for most (if not all) of the system images. For this reason, I'm not too concerned about cross-filesystem access ignoring permissions.
I would echo the opinion of another poster that if the author has time to spare and the necessary expertise, it would be real nice to get the NTFS writable code working. However, I would not disparage or denigrate the work that he has done so far. For a Windows user looking to incorporate Linux, the ability to work initially in Windows using familiar tools will be perceived as a distinct advantage, even if he will have to rely heavily on dos2unix on the Linux side for text files.
