Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust
Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust
Posted Jun 9, 2021 18:41 UTC (Wed) by IanKelling (subscriber, #89418)In reply to: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust by andrewsh
Parent article: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust
Your document says you specifically want to prevent from running modified code on their device and are choosing uutils for that reason. As your document says and https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-poi... says, tivoized open source is not free software. In fact, I suspect the most common software by total installs and total lines of code on end user computers is tivoized open source. The most notable programs are the kernel linux and sqlite on android.
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