[kibwen]

> The last significant online C community was the one that gave us the pro-user products in the first place.

You mean the OSI, headed by famous C hacker Eric S. Raymond, the permissive-license rebellion against the GPL? Pretending that the MIT/BSD licenses aren't a legacy of the C ecosystem is revisionist history.

> It's not comparable - the Rewrite-it-in-Rust community is aiming to replace the existing pro-user products, with new pro-business products.

It's clear that you have no idea what you're talking about. There is no "rewrite-it-in-Rust community", there are just people using Rust and writing what they want. That copyleft licenses have lost mindshare to permissive licenses in the decades since the rise of the OSI is a broader movement in OSS that long predates Rust, and has nothing to do with Rust itself.

[lelanthran]

> You mean the OSI, headed by famous C hacker Eric S. Raymond, the permissive-license rebellion against the GPL? Pretending that the MIT/BSD licenses aren't a legacy of the C ecosystem is revisionist history.

Sure, C played a great part there too, but you are ignoring the present.

What we are seeing now is a concerted effort to replace pro-user products with pro-business products.

Even if you re right that the start of Copyleft, with gcc, is revisionist history, that has no relevance to what is happening now, which is a large effort by a specific community to replace pro-user products with pro-business products.

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