So, you had to choose between the code that was still Open Source and the code that was now proprietary.
If you stick with the Open Source, what you describe does not happen.
If you moved to the proprietary, well, there you are. You clearly decided that the new features were more important than it being Open Source.
Remember, it is only the new features. All the old code remains as open as it ever was.
What could be the possible incentive to:
move core utils to a closed license if you are a company
for a Linux distro to choose that version over the already existing Open Source version
Remember companies cannot take Open Source code bases closed. They can fork an Open Source project and close their fork. But all that means is that their “future” changes are not Open Source
The original Open Source code still exists and we can all keep using it.
For a real world example of companies not closing their userland, Apple still releases the source to their userland even though the BSD license does not require it.
For a real world example of the community continuing on with the Open Source code and ignoring the closed fork, look at Valkey and Reddis.
GNU is completely dominated by Red Hat. The alternatives, like uutils, are far LESS corporate.
Fear and feelings over facts.
Get a cheap desktop and run Windows on it. Remote Desktop into that machine to run your app.
You can use TwinGate or Tailscale to access your desktop from anywhere.
“Mac”iavellian. I see what you did there.
I am not sure how you arrived at “none” from your second sentence. The second sentence is exactly my point.
Alternatively then, can I just use the Microsoft source code and claim that I got it from AI? That seems to be your point here.
I did misunderstand. Thank you.
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?
Can Open Source defend against copyright claims for AI contributions?
If I submit code to ReactOS that was trained on leaked Microsoft Windows code, what are the legal implications?
Yes please. 2013 MacBook Pro? I use a 2013 MacBook Air every day. I am sure your MacBook Pro is much better.
They are selling them. Look into ESU (Extended Security Updates).
$30 a year.
I was for many of us. So, they were not totally wrong.
Please be aware that you are attacking people with principles. They simply value different principles than you.
I have no problem with the different principles or even that you dismiss those principles. Just be aware that you are.
There is no GNOME 5. They are up to GNOME 48 now.
Strong recommendation of EndeavourOS over Manjaro.
That was it for me. I was actually a KDE user way back in the KDE 2 and 3 days. I found KDE 4 unusable. KDE 5 never won me over. But I have been using Plasma 6 on Wayland and am perfectly happy with it.
You really need to be on Plasma 6 if you use Wayland.
The original code remains available under the original.
Any proprietary code would have to be code that was added on top of that.
You always have the ability to keep using the Own Source code. That is a freedom you have.
If you decide that proprietary version is “better” and choose to use that, well that is a freedom you have. But now you have accepted a proprietary license. Your choice.