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Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

Posted Jun 13, 2021 22:06 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust by khim
Parent article: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

> Today… these people are leaving. GCC team haven't divorced FSF yes, but this is, surely, step in that direction.

That doesn't mean the toolchain hackers aren't free software people any more. It's still GPL-licensed and will remain so. Being in favour of free software and wanting to give RMS sole unquestioned authority over your project are *not* the same thing. I wish people would stop assuming they were.


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