Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust
Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust
Posted Jun 10, 2021 14:10 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust by pizza
Parent article: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust
> It was never "popular" to begin with, with its proponents always looked upon with derision.
True, but these proponents were able to coopt people with a different mindset. The ones who later have formed the “open source” movement.
There was some friction between these two groups, but Linus is still considering adoption of GPL as one of the best decisions he ever did in development of Linux.
Today… these people are leaving. GCC team haven't divorced FSF yes, but this is, surely, step in that direction.
> We're seeing the beginnings of the second round of BSD wars, only this time fueled by Apache-licensed stuff instead, and of course, users will be screwed over left and right in even greater numbers.Maybe. This wouldn't happen any time soon, though.
> Time will tell. *shrug*Sure. But only our descendants will be able to tell. When was TiVo made? 22 years ago? That's almost quarter-century. The promised doom haven't materialized yet.
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