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The things people do to sabotage free software (lemmy.nz)
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[-] Scoopta@programming.dev 31 points 2 months ago

The fact that they're doing it MIT shows they aren't really trying to just rewrite it in rust for technical merits, there are ulterior motives

[-] csolisr@hub.azkware.net 24 points 2 months ago

Specifically, they want to be able to use the utils without having to open-source the derivative works. Same reason why Google is developing the Zircon kernel for Fuchsia OS, by the way.

[-] Scoopta@programming.dev 15 points 2 months ago

Yeah, personally I'm against that. It's why I GPL my software

[-] ranzispa@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

I'm not a lawyer and work in the EU, that's why I EUPL my software.

[-] lemmysmash@beehaw.org 11 points 2 months ago

Precisely. Same reason why Apple pushes zsh and ancient bash down everyone's throats.

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