Unless they share it against the license terms via copilot of course.
Otherwise, I agree with you.
LeFantome
joined 2 years ago
32 bit Windows is probably no big loss. The real headline is this:
“The *-windows-gnu targets currently do not have any dedicated target maintainers. We do not have a lot of expertise for this toolchain, and issues often aren't fixed and cause problems in CI that we have a hard time to debug.”
That means 64 bit Windows support as well. That is a pretty big deal. How is it possible that Microsoft uses Rust in Windows now and yet there are no Windows maintainers? Isn’t their new Edit written in Rust too?
This is where is shake my head at corporate support. Microsoft has 200,000 employees. They cannot spare one for Rust?
The US has chosen to weaken itself at a really dangerous time
Totally agree with this.
That happens to me constantly
That and every Stargate planet is Vancouver
Capitalism is fine with it actually.
The issue is that there will be too many old people and not enough young people to support them.
But old people have most of the money. So, lots of money will still be spent. Capitalism will be fine. Sure, some old people will have no money and bankrupt their children. But capitalism does not care about that.
It would have been a bigger problem before AI and robotics. But capitalism will shrink the workforce faster than birth rates.
Watch a bear do it and repeat what they do
MIT license predates the GPL. Tiny projects like X chose it many decades ago.
Most Open Source software is written by corporations.
Probably the largest developer of GPL software is Red Hat. I will avoid responding to the “closing down” of RHEL except to ask how Alma and Rocky are doing. Pretty well I believe.
Permissive licenses like MIT and Apache require the software to “remain free-and-open-source (FOSS)”. That is “the software” released under those licenses (not some future software that has not been written yet).
WSL is Open Source.
But don’t let the facts get in the way.
Permissive licenses are trending in popularity vs copyleft. As a “newer” ecosystem, the Rest-dev culture skews towards permissive.
Why are permissive licenses popular?
Most Open Source software is written by companies.
“Permissive” licenses offer more flexibility and compatibility while minimizing future legal complications. You can replace the word flexibility with the word freedom if you wish. By compatibility, I mean it can be combined with code using other licenses. So no “we cannot combine ZFS and Linux” type problems.
MIT offers the absolute minimum of legal footprint and maximum compatibility.
The above are attributes companies value.
On the other side of the “freedom” front, licenses like MIT guarantee all of the “4 freedoms” that groups like the Free Software Foundation talks about with adding an restrictions on the freedoms of others.
So, why doesn’t everybody use MIT? The patent guarantees in Apache 2.0 are useful if you are ok with the added complexity (still permissive but more legalese).
Not according to the Free Software Foundation.
Also, Red Hat contributes more GPL code than Debian does.
I am a happy Wayland user but I do have nostalgia for some of these window managers.
My very first UNIX experience was on Sun workstations running Open Look. And my first moment getting X working on Linux at home allowed me to apply the TWM config from these machines and feel like I had my own Sun. Many people cut their teeth on CDE (MWM). The versions on Linux are not just look-alike but the “real deal”. This is the actual code that was running on big iron all these years ago.
Perhaps the biggest loss is FVWM. People still use it and it is the base for other stuff (like NsCDE).
I have no doubt that somebody will make an FVWM Wayland compositor at some point. No doubt there will be something like NsCDE available too.
Some of these experiences are available on Wayland already. Wayland Maker for example: https://github.com/phkaeser/wlmaker
Sadly, I doubt there will ever be another Open Look.
But so few people use these environments that it is effectively zero. The article says Open Look will not run on 64 bit. The reason NsCDE exists is that, even for fans, CDE is not practical. You will always be able to “run” them, even if only in a VM. So, they will not be gone.