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Yes that's true and there's synergies but keep in mind I also have a personal mind
by julian-klode 11mo ago
Yes that's true and there's synergies but keep in mind I also have a personal mind
- bfkwlfkjf 11mo ago[flagged]
- oddmade 11mo agoLet me evolve that for you. You should not only avoid appearance of impropriety, but also impropriety.
- woodruffw 11mo agoInstead of insinuating, can you say what exactly the impropriety here would be, in your opinion?
- noir_lord 11mo 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 11mo 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 11mo agoJulian Klode is not a corporation, though, so we should give him the benefit of a doubt.
- noosphr 11mo 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 11mo 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 11mo agoAre you just being clever by mocking someone with a job or so you think there is something wrong with this technical decision?
- torstenvl 11mo ago[flagged]
- dcminter 11mo 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 11mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Assume good faith.
- noosphr 11mo ago[flagged]