this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2026
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What are your thoughts?

The author raises some good questions about the licensing of the core utils.

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[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's made by Canonical, a for-profit company, where's the surprise?
Have they gone public yet?

[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, you can say the same about Fedora and RedHat and OpenSUSE and SUSE, no?

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

RedHat for sure, especially as of late, dunno about the others.