Rust Coreutils cp Ended Up Breaking Ubuntu Image Builds With Latest Incompatibility (www.phoronix.com)

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

No it's just a news about the pointless, corporate rust rewrite of GNU coreutils being a shitshow.

[-] TehPers@beehaw.org 10 points 2 months ago

uutils is rewritten by a corporation? Huh, TIL. I guess their website is wrong:

uutils is a community-driven, open-source effort maintained by volunteers around the world. There is no company behind it, just contributors who care about the future of foundational command-line tools.

[-] somegeek@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago

Claims are easy. Actions are what matters. rewriting FOSS program with GPL license under MIT license is only possible from either a corporate backed project (because it makes takeover of a lot of FOSS infra so much simpler for them), or an extremely stupid team. both cases are equally bad.

[-] TehPers@beehaw.org 5 points 2 months ago

Got it. Andrew Gallant is extremely stupid. Will keep that in mind.

[-] somegeek@programming.dev -1 points 2 months ago

Thanks! So probably, we can conclude that he's getting paid corporate money. Good for him, just a shame if others use it.

Btw, a very smart person can still make very stupid decisions.

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