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An update on rust-coreutils in Ubuntu
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Is rust-coreutils being developed by Canonical? Then it sounds like shooting themselves in the foot. Why give competitors a chance to take over a vital package that is at the core of their OS?
How is MIT a "chance to take over"? It's a chance to go proprietary with future enhancements, but that's far from a takeover.
I'm no licensing expert and I was responding to the previous comment that said someone can fork it and then make it proprietary. So If they already have dominant market position, they could force people to use a proprietary version.
Well, yeah, if they have a dominant market position, they can force their customers to do just about anything.
Some Canonical employees are working on it but it's not originally a Canonical project.