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The author raises some good questions about the licensing of the core utils. Why the MIT license? Why not stick to GNU GPL?

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[-] mrbigmouth502@piefed.zip 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I wish there were a Linux equivalent for what the Windows world had before Windows 7 went EOL, where you could have an older, stable base OS that was mostly forward-compatible with newer software.

You can sort of achieve this with Debian Stable and Flatpak, but it's not as seamless as the forward compatibility old versions of Windows had.

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