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I do not know how that article covered so much background on GNU hURD and the quest for a micro-kernel UNIX without mentioning Redox OS.
https://www.redox-os.org/
Redox is also micro-kernel based POSIX compatible operating system (UNIX compatible). So quite like the GNU project and HURD in that sense.
Redox is younger, 10 years old instead of 30, and more “modern” (eg. written in Rust). It can be seen as a GNU competitor as it does not rely on the GNU C library or utilities.
mit license though. ripe for getting the redis treatment
Fun fact, there isnt even an "MIT license", look:
https://spdx.org/licenses
Next level gaslighting. "Is the MIT license in the room with us right now?"
I took this in the spirit that there isn't a single MIT license, so you're correct, but more gooder would've been to mention the specific variant that was in use by the project
I mean that there is MIT and MIT-0 is already odd
testregex is an absolutely wild suffix
https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html ?
There are many variants. Also APL2.0 is just as permissive but protects against patent trolling
Did you even read the page you linked? It took less than 10 seconds to scroll down to the 'M's.
Yes.