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The things people do to sabotage free software (thelemmy.club)
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[-] Scoopta@programming.dev 29 points 1 day ago

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 day ago

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.

[-] lemmysmash@beehaw.org 9 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Scoopta@programming.dev 15 points 1 day ago

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

this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2026
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