where legally, “sell” includes things that most people wouldn’t consider a sale

Allowing access for valuable consideration is pretty cut and dry. What is the legislation defining beyond that?

stifle reverse engineering for interoperability.

Nothing will get better until the rent seekers are cast out of the temple.

I read somewhere someone supposed it had to do with SoftBank building out data centers to host this nonsense.

Which, given the history of SoftBank’s investing, is utterly hilarious and appropriate.

Well, yes. The US military is typically not deployed against people who can defend themselves.

the main issue is

Sure. But I’ve seen quite a bit of push back against rust from these sorts even outside the kernel.

Can someone distill the good faith argument against rust? Is there one?

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