https://www.noureddine.org/articles/the-problem-with-rust-and-open-source-rewritesIt all makes sense now why so many people are pushing for "Rewrite in Rust">Do you notice anything ? It seems as if the rewrite efforts are not only about Rust, but rather also to push a change in licensing from the copyleft GPL licenses toward the permissive MIT and Apache licenses.>We are starting to see the consequences of developers using whatever default license that is being pushed, with GPL licenses going nearly extinct, developers working for free without advancing anything, and the free software ideals slowly disappearing and being replaced with closed ecosystems that technically still use open source components but are harming the overall freedoms of users and the proper recognition of independent developers' work.Rust isn't just a ploy to get rid of C. It's a DIRECT ATTACK ON SOFTWARE FREEDOM and the GPL. THEY want you to use RUST so that you're FORCED TO LICENSE IN MIT/APACHE/ETC (NON-GPL).THEY WANT TO DESTROY GPLTHEY WANT TO KILL SOFTWARE FREEDOM
>>106567132Do you realize that most of the things in the left column are themselves rewrites of usually BSD-licensed tools?>awk, bc, grep, sed>GPLMy sides, this is literally rewriting history
>>1065672280Fixing typos>>106567132 (OP) #So when you tell that people in a friendly manner as a big tech corpo insider, people aren't serious about that.But once tinfoil hatters accidentally stumble upon something tangential, it becomes a news and a panic that ends in nothing happening ever.That's why posting on 4chan is pointless unless you have an astro-turfing gorrila army.t. Got chased away from /twg/ by Indians.
>>106567132No, the mit licenses are there because the retards rewriting are all noobs with 0 self-worth so they don't have the balls to even demand GPL source sharing
>>106568467>>106567132Nobody is extending core utils. A company that uses Linux doesn't have to share shit just because they use it. No company is extending the functionality of cat, awk, and grep and shit alike and then attempting to sell it. It's pointless to GPL this code.
