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Re:Reimplementing the Coreutils in a modern language (Rust) by trasz3 on Monday February 13, 2023 @06:59PM (#34782863)
GPL doesn’t make you any less an unpaid labour. In fact the whole RedHat business model is about profiting off software written by people you don’t pay.
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Re:Reimplementing the Coreutils in a modern language (Rust) by msla on Monday February 13, 2023 @07:09PM (#34782982)
I disagree with this: Red Hat makes money off support, not taking open source code, making a few additions, and taking the whole shebang proprietary without giving anything back.
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Re:Reimplementing the Coreutils in a modern language (Rust) by trasz3 on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @10:13AM (#34790418)
Off support for software written by someone else. That’s the point: it’s much cheaper than selling support for their own software, because they don’t need to pay for development.
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