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Re:Oxidizing Ubuntu: adopting Rust utilities by default by yawaramin on Saturday March 22, 2025 @11:42AM (#43446560)
IBM is one of the biggest open source contributors in the world. What are you looking out for exactly?
Re:Oxidizing Ubuntu: adopting Rust utilities by default by mixmastamyk on Saturday March 22, 2025 @02:16PM (#43447526)
Did you miss this one?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/06/red-h...

Again, be careful not to attribute past RH actions with IBM. Yes, IBM was very helpful in the 90s and later, but you can't fully trust a corporation past the next financial statement, and certainly not past a leadership change or three.

Re:Oxidizing Ubuntu: adopting Rust utilities by default by yawaramin on Saturday March 22, 2025 @02:57PM (#43447773)
Did I miss Red Hat applying the license of their software with the rights given to them by said license? No, I did not, I supported it. The GPL is perfectly compatible with commerce and a profitable business model and this example shows exactly why. What would you prefer–companies that open source software bleed money and get taken advantage of by others? I don't. I want to see a healthy open source ecosystem that preserves user freedoms while balancing that with profitability. The GPL perfectly embodies this ideal.
Re:Oxidizing Ubuntu: adopting Rust utilities by default by mixmastamyk on Saturday March 22, 2025 @04:47PM (#43448482)
Fragmede above describes the details on why we keep a healthy distance from IBM.
Re:Oxidizing Ubuntu: adopting Rust utilities by default by yawaramin on Monday March 24, 2025 @02:31PM (#43464023)
Provide the link please! Don't make me hunt through the thread to figure out what you're talking about lol
Re:Oxidizing Ubuntu: adopting Rust utilities by default by mixmastamyk on Monday March 24, 2025 @04:10PM (#43464922)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43443062

As he says, it's just business. And IBM isn't near the top on my list of big tech companies to avoid. However they are subject to the same enshittification pressures as the rest. Their history is not all rosy either.