Ubuntu 25.10’s transition to using Rust Coreutils in place of GNU Coreutils has uncovered a few performance issues so far with the Rust version being slower than the C-based GNU Coreutils. Fortunately there still are a few weeks to go until Ubuntu 25.10 releases as stable and upstream developers are working to address these performance gaps.
We’re obviously talking about corporations intentionally using open source software with the intention of eliminating it as competition, we aren’t talking about the literal definition of the word “stealing”, which you seem smart enough to be able to recognize, but you’re insisting on being pedantic.
You twisted that into an argument about what the author of the code has the right to do… No one gives a shit, and we aren’t obligated to support it.
That’s not what corporations do when they use MIT/BSD code. They rely on that code; it’s not their “competition”. Unless you are talking about stuff like WhatsApp using libsignal, where they do use code from a direct competitor, but that’s far less common, and also not going to have a negative effect on Signal. I can’t speak for Signal of course but they are probably quite happy with WhatsApp using libsignal, as it both spreads Signal’s beliefs about communication being E2EE, and it makes WhatsApp reliant upon Signal. FOSS projects like ffmpeg, curl, etc, are (reasonably!) happy that the entire industry depends on the tool they wrote. And they are kept alive because they are so widely depended upon. Corporations donate to FOSS projects because they need them.
wtf is a non-literal definition of “stealing”? The idea of stealing is stupid enough already, I can’t play your games to figure out how you extrapolate something sillier from it. I’m a communist. I don’t believe in private property and I don’t give a shit about stealing.