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Needs a perhaps with question mark or some proof.
by apples_oranges 1y ago
Needs a perhaps with question mark or some proof.
- noosphr 1y agoYou could just read his signiture in the mailing list. https://mastodon.social/@juliank https://mastodon.social/@juliank >Senior Engineer at Canonical.
- julian-klode 1y agoYes that's true and there's synergies but keep in mind I also have a personal mind
- bfkwlfkjf 1y ago[flagged]
- oddmade 1y agoLet me evolve that for you. You should not only avoid appearance of impropriety, but also impropriety.
- woodruffw 1y agoInstead of insinuating, can you say what exactly the impropriety here would be, in your opinion?
- noir_lord 1y agoI think that's unkind absent any proof otherwise which you haven't posted. In reality a lot of the heavily used parts of Linux (and open source generally) are going to have some commercial involvement or are we suggesting that no one should be paid by any of the companies backing Linux who use Linux because to me that sounds worse. Whether you like it or not, Linux/Open Source hasn't been entirely the preserve of unpaid people doing it for fun for a long time.
- noosphr 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog I don't understand how people keep giving the benefit of the doubt to corporations. They aren't people. They feel no guilt and have no shame.
- adwn 1y agoJulian Klode is not a corporation, though, so we should give him the benefit of a doubt.
- noosphr 1y agoThe whole thread started someone making the wrong point that: >They are of no commercial interest to Ubuntu. Which is plainly false. Julian can believe whatever he wants, in fact the more naively idealistic he is the better for Canonical. The fact of the matter is that corporate Linux's benefits from impossible to run setups. That's the whole business model. The more convoluted the setup is the more money they make. Rust fits into this business model perfectly. You'd think people would have learned this after the Nth rug pull from supposed champions of free software like RedHat.
- bfkwlfkjf 1y agoMy whole point, which you've missed, is that the _interest_ is what we should be looking at. I don't care if he says he does or doesn't act on it. He has the interest.
- unethical_ban 1y agoAre you just being clever by mocking someone with a job or so you think there is something wrong with this technical decision?
- torstenvl 1y ago[flagged]
- dcminter 1y agoThat's obnoxious. Do you only promote the interests of your employer? Do you expect people to assume that? It's not even as if Canonical has a particularly bad reputation for that kind of thing.
- btrettel 1y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Assume good faith.
- noosphr 1y ago[flagged]
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