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Ubuntu 26.10 Moves cp, mv & rm Over To Rust Coreutils For 100% Transition
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Coreutils are being dropped in favour of "move fast and break things" model with Rust and permissive licenses that allows for corporations to pull the rug from under the users (and developers) and put subscription barriers on everything.
That has to be the absolute dumbest take ever.
Nothing about this suggests they will put "subscription barriers" on anything.
Stop scaremongering
There's lots of good reasons to use rust over C.
Even if it was GPL, since they developed the tools, they can still dual licence. It just means any third party contributions added to the GPL code couldn't be added back into the proprietary one. That's what GPL helps protect against.. It doesn't stop the original developers releasing a commercial version at all.
Not that there is any evidence they would.. If they were trying to achieve that, you wouldn't target coreutils (you'd target more profitable things, like a desktop environment, or drivers)
Buuut I mean, this is still a reversible decision, right?
I guess, so, yeah, but it's not gonna be Canonical who revert it.
Would it be Debian you mean? Or where does this decision come from?
I think it would come from moving to another distro.