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points by lakeviewterrace 1 day ago | 0 comments

This is by design.

They are slow-rolling the cancellation of Stallman's connection to the OS because their first attempt failed.

In 10 years, no one will have heard of GNU after all components have been replaced with corporate clones.

[–] tomkarho 1 day ago

I find it hard to believe that all of this movement is because of Stallman. That seems so... petty.

[–] fwip 1 day ago

Less Stallman and more the GPL. Companies hate it.

[–] tomkarho 1 day ago

I can see that. I've been part of a conversation where GPL is treated like the son of satan because it requires giving back and no one seems to agree on the scope or what the license actually demands. So legal goes apeshit and management shits bricks because they might have to share some code.

[–] pantalaimon 1 day ago

GPLv3 is incompatible with embedded (Ubuntu Core) use cases

[–] direwolf20 1 day ago

no it isn't. Please don't spread FUD.

[–] 7e 1 day ago

Open source predates Stallman. His mental illnesses are a distraction from it, though.

[–] boorbat 1 day ago

Stallman is being canceled because an MIT licensed program (sudo) is being replaced with a different MIT licensed program (sudo-rs)?