Operation WD-40 Rust Purge

OPERATION WD-40 1. Before the end of 2024 Linus Torvalds and other leaders must bar permanently Rust from the kernel or else resign— leaving a sane project leader such as Ted Ts'o. 2. Before the end of 2025 distros must remove userspace Rust software. Package maintainers shall rewrite such software as C and license it into GPL. 3. Before 2030 shall be made a modified GPL or GPL4, it forbids any use of Rust language by those who redistribute, even unrelated code, therefore to prevent situations like CloudFlare. These are not negotiable demands. Upon failure to respond, will prompt maintainers to leave or fork code even the kernel. FREE SOFTWARE WHITELIST Until the sun dawns on a planet without Rust— only our feet and wallets vote. Install only real GNU tools, do not use “rewrite it in Rust” versions. Instead of GNOME/COSMIC— use KDE. Instead of Sway— use Hyprland. Instead of Godot— use Unreal. OpenBSD never will use Rust, consider this. Do not use Windows or Android. In these systems major components are Rust. Do not do business with Oxide or Systen76. These companies are aggressive promulgators, their hardware is installed with Rust and cannot be removed. Above all— write in C.

A dark-themed manifesto titled “Operation WD-40” demands that Linux and open-source projects permanently ban Rust from the kernel and userspace, favoring C and a long list of alternative tools. The joke parodies authoritarian political ultimatums and Rust-vs-C ecosystem debates, escalating into an absurd blacklist that even rejects Windows, Android, Oxide, and System76. It is used as a reaction to intense anti-Rust sentiment or exaggerated software tribalism.

• @gentoomemes / 14550 2024-11-07