• Scoopta@programming.dev
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    14 days ago

    The fact that they’re doing it MIT shows they aren’t really trying to just rewrite it in rust for technical merits, there are ulterior motives

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      14 days ago

      Specifically, they want to be able to use the utils without having to open-source the derivative works. Same reason why Google is developing the Zircon kernel for Fuchsia OS, by the way.

  • Solemarc@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Sure this is a pretty funny screenshot, but this is a rewrite of gnuutils not a rewrite of libc.