Not trying to diminish broader trends in the software landscape, but this thread was talking about big established gnu software (like GPG) and newer rust based alternatives (like sequoia mentioned in the recording). This choice seems fairly unmediated by large corporations. Probably has more to do with the popularity of rust and how well they market, but the license doesn’t seem to matter that much to people.

Uh? So ubuntu replacing gnu coreutils with rust has nothing to do with ubuntu being run by a corporation?

And a single developer deciding for the entirety of the debian project just also happened to be a canonical employee by pure chance?

I didn’t realize that particular change came with a license change. Thanks for the context.