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   Ludovic Courtès (civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 06:45:37 JST Ludovic Courtès

   Bye, copyleft. Hello, corporate interests.
   https://fosstodon.org/@gnutools/114168573791483805

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 06:46:23 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @civodul Well canonical was already corporate anyway.
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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 06:56:44 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     someone at IBM had warned (threatened?) me about corporate efforts to replace all things GNU and copyleft years ago. they wouldn't say more, but it soon became apparent that they were talking about Rust 😞
     
     we have long had GNAT with strong copyleft, great memory safety and lighterweight compilation, which kind of renders the illusionism behind the push for Rust no better than a rich men's hat trick. but there it is, and people are falling for it.
     
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     Ludovic Courtès (civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 06:56:45 JST Ludovic Courtès

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     C is terrible and Rust is so much better, but I don’t think memory safety is the only justification for having ‘ls’ in Rust.

     Some of those active in this effort worked on replacing GCC with Clang in distros before.

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     Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 20:43:25 JST Janneke

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     • Alexandre Oliva

     @lxo @civodul well, sadly most of GNU has been mostly in maintenance mode at best for a couple of decades now. We lost many brilliant free software advocates that burned trying to turn the nose dive around and also failed to inspire and recruit.