Re:Oxidizing Ubuntu: adopting Rust utilities by default
by WD-42 on Saturday March 22, 2025 @03:21PM
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His insinuation that if you just MIT your code so that big tech companies can use it, and if they end up needing help with it they might even hire you, seems super sleazy and borderline exploitive especially in the current job market.
> the GPL has led to fairly noticeable increase in the amount of proprietary software in the world
What he did:
> opening up our core source code was never an option.
It's companies that decide that open sourcing their software is 'never an option'–even the LZO compression part of it–that lead to a 'noticeable increase in the amount of proprietary software in the world'. They are just using the GPL bogeyman as a thin excuse for their own decisions.