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  • LMFO I was on the reddit thread reading this post and coudn't believe my eyes reading the comments. We're living truly revelation times. Like you said this is a long due wakeup call for the rest of the "uncivilized" world.

  • One thing I can imagine is even something like unconscious “self censorship”, choosing more permissive license to attract more people and even corporations which will hire developers…

    This is the result of years of anti-copyleft propaganda which started to pay off. Now, all that corps need to do is wait for new projects and libraries to pop up and subtly (more than often openly) allocate resources to whichever project they need, or simply EEE. A much easier exercise than it was during the early years of copyleft where we could literally have a free alternate operating system to Microsoft, Apple and IBM while they were openly fighting it. Read on the Education and Government Incentives program for a reminder of what corporations are capable of.

  • I highly doubt these are sponsored by any big corp, just hobbyists/students that think it is interesting project to undertake that don’t care as much about the GPL as much as they care about doing something interesting to them.

    I wanted to test this theory, quickly looking at the commit history you can see that although the project might have started as a hobby/student weekend project, it is currently maintained by someone with an official affiliation of director at Mozilla corp.

    PS: I am not pointing the finger to any entity here, I picked this project as an example to have a discussion on this topic.

  • I am aware that permissive licenses became the defacto form of licensing for new projects thanks to years of propaganda from big corps and especually Microsoft, who bought Github mainly for this. I never paid too much attention until I realized the potential for Rust projects to be widely adopted for replacing a big portion of copyleft libraries. This coreutils project was just an example to make the point, it seems very convenient and it is easy to dismiss the licencing choice as a coincidence. On the long term this might have huge implications a few generations ahead when big corps don't have to contribute nothing anymore to society. Look at what is happening with OpenCloseAI, open source models are lagging behind because there nothing equivalent to GNU/Copyleft in this field, thus we end up with a big corp mostly owned by Microsoft holding a life changing technology in its hands and hindering the progress of all society.

  • Rust Programming @lemmy.ml
    blob42 @lemmy.ml

    I think something sinister is happening with oxidizing all GNU projects (reddit crosspost)

    I posted this over /r/StallmanWasRight and I am not sure it would be taken well at /r/Rust so here we are.


    I have been getting into Rust in the last year but the licensing ecosystem of Rust crates makes me perplexed.

    Today I came along this project https://github.com/uutils/coreutils that is trying to rewrite GNU coreutils in Rust and it is likely over the years projects like this one will overshadow many of the legacy GNU projects.

    They are almost all made on "permissive" licenses that will give so much more power to corporations, in fact I am absolutely sure all these (big) rewrites are sponsored by corporations to escape the GNU safeguards that were built to protect users and society.

    Does anyone else see this or am I just too paranoid ?

    EDIT: It is not my intention to single out any specific project/team. Instead, I aim to initiate a meaningful discussion regarding the licensing choice. Rust is likely the first language since C that holds the capability to

    AI @lemmy.ml
    blob42 @lemmy.ml

    I built a full AI environment in the terminal

    Hi all,

    I wanted toshare a project I have been working on.

    With Instrukt, you can build, customize, debug and instruct AI agents straight from the terminal.

    I made a quick demo to showcase the main features here: https://youtu.be/_mkIoqiY0dE

    Looking forward for feedback.

  • use homomorphism and apply it to everything:

     undefined
        
    interface Profitable {
          exploitable() --> bool
          can_organize() --> bool
    }
    
    let profitables: list[Profitable]
    
    for entity in all_things_on_earth {
        if entity.exploitable && !entity.can_organize {
            profitables.push(entity)
        }
    }
    
    profit += sell(exploit(profitables))
    capital += buy_all_you_can(profit) - (buy_politicians(profit))
    
    
      
  • Fair enough I understand your point of view. My appologies for the rude comment. I think this problem will fade with other general instances getting more popular. As I understand Lemmy.ml is closed for new users so it's only a matter of time.

  • He is asking the moderators to justify "their" rules on "their" own instance, which I can understand. Arguing that this instance is predominant and therefore should be apolitical is where I disagree.

    Op is obviously trying to create drama which is being shared on Reddit to discourage people from joining Lemmy ( not lemmy.ml the instance). Any new user who would spend a bit of time would figure out that there are many instances to all tastes, if not they could create their own instance.

  • Patient Gamers @lemmy.ml
    blob42 @lemmy.ml

    Creator of Fallout series started a vlog series

    Hi all,

    As the title says , Timothy Cain , creator of the fallout series started a youtube channel where he discusses Fallout and game development. It's really interesting listening to the history and politics that went behind.

    Rust Programming @lemmy.ml
    blob42 @lemmy.ml

    Some tips to get me motivated build with Rust

    Hi all,

    I started learning rust a few months ago on my free time. I went through the most difficult already like borrow checker and I used the Learning Rust book from Jim Blandy as reference especially for its first chapters.

    This is not my first time learning a language I already have experience with Python, Go, JS, C, Lua ... but with Rust it feels different.

    Everytime I learned a new lang there was always a milestone I crossed that made me feel comfortable using the language, that milestone was always some side project or program I needed anyway.

    I am trying to do the same with Rust but the slowness of learning and looking up the docs coupled with the verbosity of the language is not very motivating. Don't get me wrong, I really want to use Rust and learn it as it looks very elegant and clean, I already learned a lot more about lower level details of programming. The documentation is probably the most elaborate one I ever used for a programming language.

    To keep me going I a