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OpenAI joins The Rust Foundation as a Platinun member and donates funds to support Rust maintenance (rustfoundation.org)
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[–] webkitten@piefed.social -5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Fuck Rust for this.

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
  1. "Corporations should contribute back to open source projects"
  2. Corporation donates to <project>.
  3. "Fuck <project>"

It's not like Rust is using ChatGPT to rewrite the std crate. You'd prefer that they not compensate the humans actually improving the project?

[–] webkitten@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Corporations shouldn't contribute to open source projects cause corporations shouldn't exist; especially Open AI.