I doubt we have many “tricks” to employ as open source community against big money :/ This world has definitely evolved very very wrong on so many levels. At least I did not contribute by playing tech implementor for big money or surveillance states - but I know enough tech people who aren’t very principled on that matter :(

Very very evil corporations. That’s alike to being supported by Adolf Hitler Inc.

It’s definitely a poisoned pill in my books :( I never got around to consider Rust but now I also likely never won’t :/

See my other comment - I am not under the illusion any language is safe from that - but programming languages definitely should be protected from corporate fingers - only that I have no idea how to accomplish that :(

oh you should definitely be alarmed - for anything these evilcorps stick their dirty, nasty fingers in. I am already frustrated they have rats in the C++ standardization committee - in a way I am glad C++ is not as hyped, so that evil corporations spend a relevant part of resources into targeting other languages. But hoo this is scary - if our language standards get compromised, developing open source will also require maintaining an open source version of any given programming language, along with a compiler. Now if newer compilers break the ABI (application binary interface), and the evilcorps lobby those compromised compilers into major OSes, we’ll be having a nightmare scenario where we can’t even use system dependencies any more.

So Rust is getting a corporate death hug?