The theoretical concern is that some nefarious company will start making improvements and not contribute them back so that it can have access to (and possibly even sell) its own premium version that takes advantage of the hard work of the community without giving back.

Personally, I am a bit skeptical of this for a couple of reasons. First, I have a really hard time seeing any company care enough about uutils to do this. Second, continually merging changes from an upstream project is a real pain, so there is a strong incentive to make contributions back out of self-interest.

But even to the extent that there is some grounds to be concerned, it is not enough for so many people to contribute so much noise to every single one of these posts whining, as if it is attack on them personally.

What freedom is being taken away from you, personally, exactly, that makes it so bad that they decided to go with this license?

I wasn't aware that the coreutils software was changing its license?

Right, so the answer to your question is that it is trolling the uutils devs because Ubuntu was the one that decided to make the switch.

It is trolling when it broke production level systems?

Depends. Were they the ones who put it into production level systems? If the answer to that question is no, then, well, you have your answer already.

Yes, but they have it easy because their operating system only has one pony, whereas GNU is working with an entire hurd.

No worries! Pronouns in the English language are sufficiently ambiguous that it is easy to make that mistake.

The person creating this language clearly believes it has things to offer that existing languages do not.

Hurd has always seemed cool from the purist viewpoint of, "Let's prove to the world that we can do everything using a microkernel!"-- and to be frank, as a Haskell lover, it would be hypocritical for me to fault anyone for this level of purity!--but development has been plodding along for decades, with the article claiming (unless I misread it) that they are still working on things like SMP and 64-bit support.

I mean, as long as the people tinkering with this are having fun then that is all that really matters, and more power to them! However, that really seems to be the entirety of its purpose at this point, which is a shame given the lofty ambitions with which the project was launched.

Why should someone rule this language out over Nim?