Why the Government Mandated Rust: The Secret Licensing Coup (Washing Away GPL For MIT)

The push for memory safety is not a technical revolution; it is a corporate and governmental maneuver designed to strip away software freedom. By leveraging the CISA mandate and a dogmatic culture of MIT licensing, large corporations are grooming a new generation of programmers to perform the massive, unpaid labor of re-implementing the world in Rust. This shift effectively "washes" away the protections of the GPL, allowing tech giants to seize your work, lock down hardware with TPMs and age verification, and build a digital cage that you won't own. This is a message for the Rust community: regardless of our ideological or age differences, we are peers, and you are being tricked into building the infrastructure that will eventually be used to exploit and cage you. Support me and explore my world at https://www.jodybruchon.com/