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After reading for a bit I'm totally lost. I'm what sense does this "foundation" own the programming language rust and/or wield control over it?

Specifically if the toolchain developers and users sent the foundation email to spam and moved on with their lives as if this group didn't exist, does anything change?

Found this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35582766 which helped a little

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The Rust Foundation was created for a few reasons, but among them was to accept control of the trademarks from Mozilla. “The Rust Project” is not a legal entity, and that causes a lot of issues. The Foundation is, and can accept and use resources on behalf of the project.

Furthermore, the Project has significant representation on the Foundation board. The Foundation cannot just do whatever they want, against the project.

This policy was written by several Project members, in conjunction with the Foundation legal. So…

Yes. They own much of the infrastructure used by the project, and fund some of the people managing said infrastructure. In addition to the trademark.

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