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I'm not sure "risk" is the right word for it.

• jasonhansel 6y ago
  <rant> I say "risk" because any such OS would probably be available under a license more permissive than the GPL. The result would almost certainly be that large parts of the OS would become proprietary (NVIDIA has already tried this with Linux's limited module support). Of course, moving to Rust is also a risk in this respect, since the LLVM toolchain is BSD-licensed, but hopefully Rust support will be added to GCC in the not-too-distant future.
  • SolarNet 6y ago
    Except of course, the GPL is why linux remains so popular. A linux killer cannot be a linux killer unless it is GPL or similar. Or else BSD would have over taken linux a long time ago.
  • anitil 6y ago
    </rant> phew, that was bothering me
    • alkonaut 6y ago
      Thanks, it made the rest of this whole comment section a rant.