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The author raises some good questions about the licensing of the core utils. Why the MIT license? Why not stick to GNU GPL?

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[–] einlander@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] undu@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And a truckload of FUD on top of that

[–] C8r9VwDUTeY3ZufQRYvq@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] mrbigmouth502@piefed.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Old Slashdot term.

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 1 points 1 week ago

I have no interest in watching quarter of an hour of clickbait nonsense, what's the tldr besides the licencing non-issue?

This is a distro that received crap because of the transition to snaps and the whole Amazon shopping lens thing. There's pretty stiff competition for "worst release".