Did a small amount of digging and found this topic:
http://forum.linux-ntfs.org/viewtopic.php?t=741
Apparently ntfsprogs and ntfs-3g are fully competitive - ntfsprogs
gained read/write support, ntfs-3g got the extra utilities that were a
part of ntfsprogs.
From that topic what I see the main differences is that ntfsprogs
claim to be faster. ntfs-3g claims ntfsprogs is buggy.