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The things people do to sabotage free software (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@lemdro.id to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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 1 week ago

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

[–] lemmysmash@beehaw.org 11 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Solemarc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Sure this is a pretty funny screenshot, but this is a rewrite of gnuutils not a rewrite of libc.