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

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[–] 54 points 2 months ago (7 children)

MIT is terrible if it replaces current GPL projects. Companies will always provide their spyware infested proprietary version of the exact same thing which have one or two additional features, making open source software always behind rhe propruetary counterparts. See: Chromium->Google Chrome, Aosp->any Android os vendor

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  • [+] -7 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Great projects have used MIT without any issues. Godot for instance, which may also be needed, I don't know if games made by godot could be closed source if it would use gnu license for instance.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Godot didn't replace an existing broadly used GPL game engine, so this is irrelevant.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    The logic was that with a mit license companies will provide a copy of the software infected with spyware leaving the open source project behind.

    Explain why that hasn't happened to godot.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Because Godot is already quite ibferior to its proprietary alternatives, atleast in popularity. If godot was The game engine that everyone uses, proprietary ones will come and try to have it. They can have all the godot features as well as something new from their side

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Could you provide some examples when that had happened?

    I'm looking up famous projects using mit license and in any of those that had happened.

    Lua, node.js, jQuery....

    Even X11 which was indeed replaced by other system.... Wayland, which also uses MIT license.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Lua, node.js, jQuery

    Programming languages and other developer tools are very much less affected by this, since being open source is mostly a requirement for a programming language in most people's eyes. I wouldn't even learn a proprietary programming language when there are open ones. Being proprietary make it lose its appeal very much.

    About peoprietary X11 and wayland... For whom are companies making them for? Linux users? Do you think any distro will switch to it? But i'm pretty sure most companues copy parts of code from such projects to use in theirs.

    I gave Aosp- Vendor Android and chrome-chromium as examples in the beggining. Also if only linux kernel was GPLv3, android would be way more proprietary bloat free.

    Unfortunately companies have even done this exact same thing even with GPL, illegally, and got away with it because open source devs usually can't bother to file lawsuits to companies in another country

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