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Mixing Rust and C in Linux likened to cancer by maintainer (www.theregister.com)
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[–] 0x0@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago

"Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches," Ballmer said, back before Linux had metastasized into the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Nice writing.