If you can't join 'em...

Posted Aug 29, 2024 16:57 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: If you can't join 'em... by e-rk
Parent article: Rust-for-Linux developer Wedson Almeida Filho drops out

> Replace "unknown college student" with "alliance of major tech companies," remove "(just a hobby...)" and it will sound somewhat plausible.

You forgot 'and (nominally) copyleft" with "permissive" '

Meanwhile, I'm not exactly holding my breath, because these large companies have universally shown that they're utterly incapable of cooperatively acting in their own longer-term interests. Heck -- even individually, they have a tendency to keep building (and using) footguns at every opportuntiy.

If you can't join 'em...

Posted Aug 30, 2024 7:23 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

When you write "long-term", do you mean 2 or 4 quarters?

Joking aside, there's a big and obvious difference here between public and private companies.

If you can't join 'em...

Posted Aug 30, 2024 11:03 UTC (Fri) by etrusco (guest, #4227) [Link]

Search "just a hobby, won't be big and professional like UNIX" on you preferred search engine.