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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by dnautics on Monday August 31, 2020 @08:55PM (#24337451)
Can you give an example of a non-copyleft open source product where the major improvement is proprietary?
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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by sisu on Monday August 31, 2020 @10:25PM (#24337961)
Wine used to have some proprietary forks such as Cedega before they switched from MIT to LGPL.
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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by mac01021 on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @05:57AM (#24340053)
BSD -> Mac OS?
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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by snuxoll on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @10:41AM (#24342268)
All the bits for the core of the system are open, it’s just not very exciting without the proprietary bits like WindowServer, AppKit, etc. - all of which would have been equally easy to keep closed if much of Darwin was based on GPL’d projects.
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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by heavyset_go on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @03:45PM (#24346153)
> All the bits for the core of the system are open

No, some bits are open, and some bits track what's actually being shipped. Much of what is open sourced lags behind what is running on end user machines by several years. iOS modifications to XNU and Darwin were never made open source.

Apple is also dropping GPL internals in favor of open source but not copyleft licenses so that they don't have to release source code changes to the software they release.

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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by rickbutton on Monday August 31, 2020 @09:06PM (#24337512)
nginx
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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by dnautics on Monday August 31, 2020 @09:12PM (#24337546)
Sorry, I wasn't aware. What's the major improvement?
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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by tick_tock_tick on Monday August 31, 2020 @09:29PM (#24337635)
Everything in the Plus category.

https://www.nginx.com/products/nginx/#compare-versions

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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by kevincox on Monday August 31, 2020 @09:28PM (#24337627)
https://www.nginx.com/products/nginx/

Although this is probably not the best example because this is sold by the company that largely funds the open source project. Although that is a big conflict of interest.

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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by pornel on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @07:29AM (#24340637)
Cloudflare-nginx has much improved HTTP/2 support:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/nginx-structural-enhancements-fo...

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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by fooker on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @04:35AM (#24339671)
ZFS was proprietary for several years.
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