To be clear, the issue is that this code that people produced for free is too free and evil corporations might... what, profit from it more than they currently profit from coreutils' existence until eventually all software is locked and proprietary forever?
Sarcasm aside, I don't see how the existence of this code or its hypothetical adoption would hurt anyone. Ideology isn't worth following for its own sake, there has to be a mapping to physical reality, and any mapping that interprets a rewrite of coreutils as bad because it's too permissive is extremely suspect to me.
Like, what does the GPL infectiousness even protect here? Coreutils is decades old. Are we worried Microsoft is going to EEE it?
Sarcasm aside, I don't see how the existence of this code or its hypothetical adoption would hurt anyone. Ideology isn't worth following for its own sake, there has to be a mapping to physical reality, and any mapping that interprets a rewrite of coreutils as bad because it's too permissive is extremely suspect to me.
Like, what does the GPL infectiousness even protect here? Coreutils is decades old. Are we worried Microsoft is going to EEE it?