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cm0002 ( cm0002@lemdro.id )  to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 4 months ago

The things people do to sabotage free software

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The things people do to sabotage free software

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cm0002 ( cm0002@lemdro.id )  to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 4 months ago
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  • Scoopta ( Scoopta@programming.dev ) 
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    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

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      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.

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

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

      • lemmysmash ( lemmysmash@beehaw.org ) 
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        Precisely. Same reason why Apple pushes zsh and ancient bash down everyone’s throats.

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