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> A lot of Rust development is driven by corporations who are directly paying engineers to work on it, and the rust foundation has a lot of money coming in via
by MuffinFlavored 3y ago
> A lot of Rust development is driven by corporations who are directly paying engineers to work on it, and the rust foundation has a lot of money coming in via donations (literally millions).
Then why are people set up about the trademark/copyright/license issue?
- dralley 3y ago>Then why are people set up about the trademark/copyright/license issue? For the same reason people go ballistic over myriad other trivial things (e.g. Twitter), they find drama entertaining and outrage is effortless and consequence free (for them). I'm not thrilled with the trademark changes myself but forking because they posted a draft and asked for comment is absolutely dumb as heck and not productive. It just adds to the drama.
- MuffinFlavored 3y agoit’s odd how these types of people seem to be drawn to being open source contributors it’s like their personality draws them to it? it seems more prominent in this community