Re:Debian Running on Rust Coreutils
by layoutIfNeeded on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @12:37PM
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>I don't understand why they had to taint this beautiful work with stupid license politics
It's pretty simple reasoning: Rust evangelists want to maximize Rust usage. Period. Replacing GPL-licensed tools with alternatives written in Rust is an easy way to bootstrap this. Compare with: paperclip maximizer (https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/paperclip-maximizer)
It's pretty simple reasoning: Rust evangelists want to maximize Rust usage. Period. Replacing GPL-licensed tools with alternatives written in Rust is an easy way to bootstrap this. Compare with: paperclip maximizer (https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/paperclip-maximizer)