What an absolute shitshow

  • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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    3 hours ago

    If its proprietary, then it can’t be distributed in an Open Source system anyway. We are free to use the Open Source version instead. I’m actually in favor of companies having the option to do what they want with the code, that is true Open Source in my opinion. In example a different distribution or even Microsoft takes the coreutils, and makes changes and then distributes it as proprietary software. We wouldn’t need to use it anyway.

    Also which MIT Licensend software happened to this in our Linux eco system, that it became to a problem? Are there important examples?

    • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 hours ago

      Which also means Microsoft™ coreutils will always be “better” for general public. Yeah you are talking about open source, but this is more about Free Software ideology

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        Who says it will be better? It might also be worse. It might be bloated with functionality we don’t care, it might get telemetry. If its proprietary, we can’t trust it anymore. I don’t think this would be “better” just because Microsoft did something add proprietary features to it. Even the general public don’t think that Microsoft software is the best software.

        Besides that, just because Microsoft does it better does not mean ours would get worse. It wouldn’t affect Linux at all.