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The things people do to sabotage free software (reddthat.com)
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[–] 29 points 4 months ago (4 children)

The fact that they're doing it MIT shows they aren't really trying to just rewrite it in rust for technical merits, there are ulterior motives

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  • [–] 22 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Specifically, they want to be able to use the utils without having to open-source the derivative works. Same reason why Google is developing the Zircon kernel for Fuchsia OS, by the way.

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