Re:GCC Rust Approved by GCC Steering Committee
by coldtea on Monday July 11, 2022 @05:15PM
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>I'm not so sure about that; I've certainly met plenty of people who did not understand it. HN is not representative of the wider tech community.
Well, people understand it just fine.
It's just that the definitive allure of FOSS is not what the purists think it is.
purist: FOSS is about freedom (to work on the source, release changs as FOSS, etc)
real world: what I care about is 70% the code being available to use for free and 30% the ability for others (and me in some cases) to edit it and release my changes. Yeah, I do understand it's not the same as mere "freeware". But for most intents and purposes that the part I care most about, but I also like the FOSS aspect because it means I can get more community stuff for it, and I don't depend on a single vendor releasing it.
Well, people understand it just fine.
It's just that the definitive allure of FOSS is not what the purists think it is.
purist: FOSS is about freedom (to work on the source, release changs as FOSS, etc)
real world: what I care about is 70% the code being available to use for free and 30% the ability for others (and me in some cases) to edit it and release my changes. Yeah, I do understand it's not the same as mere "freeware". But for most intents and purposes that the part I care most about, but I also like the FOSS aspect because it means I can get more community stuff for it, and I don't depend on a single vendor releasing it.