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Re:Reimplementing the Coreutils in a modern language (Rust) by josephg on Monday February 13, 2023 @08:18PM (#34783789)
> companies like Apple and Google to have the 15-20 years required to build empires on top of the work of open source developers

Well, apple built on top of FreeBSD instead - which already existed and worked great. And Microsoft - the most important competitor 20 years ago - just happily built their own competing implementation of … well, everything.

The moat wasn’t effective long before Google and cloud services took over. The lack of forsight around needing gpl3 was just a nail in the coffin.

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Re:Reimplementing the Coreutils in a modern language (Rust) by saurik on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @09:00AM (#34803828)
That's just the kernel: Apple has been shipping tons of other GPL software and components in their operating system distributions that they've slowly been going through every year to rip more and more out. I mean, hell: they even relied on Samba for a long time before they got around to building a replacement!
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