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Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Transition Has Uncovered Performance Shortcomings (www.phoronix.com)
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Ubuntu 25.10's transition to using Rust Coreutils in place of GNU Coreutils has uncovered a few performance issues so far with the Rust version being slower than the C-based GNU Coreutils. Fortunately there still are a few weeks to go until Ubuntu 25.10 releases as stable and upstream developers are working to address these performance gaps.

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

You're arguing with a strawman you created, no one made any statements about the author.

The original comment called it stealing. There's nothing morally wrong with stealing, but regardless it's not even stealing. It's a stupid argument.

Solid justification for using it for coreutils you got there...

I'm obviously talking about not giving a shit about how people use it. Which makes sense for coreutils. Loads of people use it for loads of different purposes. The author shouldn't care how people use it.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    We're obviously talking about corporations intentionally using open source software with the intention of eliminating it as competition, we aren't talking about the literal definition of the word "stealing", which you seem smart enough to be able to recognize, but you're insisting on being pedantic.

    You twisted that into an argument about what the author of the code has the right to do... No one gives a shit, and we aren't obligated to support it.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    We’re obviously talking about corporations intentionally using open source software with the intention of eliminating it as competition

    That's not what corporations do when they use MIT/BSD code. They rely on that code; it's not their "competition". Unless you are talking about stuff like WhatsApp using libsignal, where they do use code from a direct competitor, but that's far less common, and also not going to have a negative effect on Signal. I can't speak for Signal of course but they are probably quite happy with WhatsApp using libsignal, as it both spreads Signal's beliefs about communication being E2EE, and it makes WhatsApp reliant upon Signal. FOSS projects like ffmpeg, curl, etc, are (reasonably!) happy that the entire industry depends on the tool they wrote. And they are kept alive because they are so widely depended upon. Corporations donate to FOSS projects because they need them.

    we aren’t talking about the literal definition of the word “stealing”

    wtf is a non-literal definition of "stealing"? The idea of stealing is stupid enough already, I can't play your games to figure out how you extrapolate something sillier from it. I'm a communist. I don't believe in private property and I don't give a shit about stealing.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    They steal labor. You would think someone with the username communism would instinctively understand that.

    And no, it isn't "far less common", and you have already been provided with examples of what we mean, so I'm not playing your games of providing examples (that don't even use the MIT license, but now I'm the one being pedantic).

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