Re:Rust has been forked to the Crab Language
by still_grokking on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @07:21AM
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Just to get this straight: Did you just say that Stallman, the inventor of free software, is damaging OpenSource?
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Learn the meaning of the two words:
Open Source = You can see the source. Usually MIT / BSD + GPL + MPL and various others are all "Open Source"
Free Software = GPL and other licenses that enforce the users freedom of access to source code. Free has nothing to do with cost.
Re:Rust has been forked to the Crab Language
by grayhatter on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @04:29PM
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he is... the free software movement fails without the hearts and minds of developers. Developers are, unfortunately, still humans and will refuse to follow the advice of someone they deem to be a twat. Even if that twat is right, if you can't convince someone free/open source software is better you lose.
Stallman is well known to act like a twat, thus holding him up as the voice of foss will convince people that foss is just a bunch of douche bags. thereby damaging open source.