Quoting MRandl comment from the blog:
> Bit of a malicious move, essentially monetizing the contributions of all the people who worked on the plugin while the open source part slowly falls into deprecation and wontfixes. Not cool at all!
If that's what we're calling "malicious" these days, then I'm not exactly outraged. Rather, I find it exciting that Rust has grown to the point where a commercial entity wants to commit to a commercial product like this.
The reason it feels malicious is because jetbrains weren’t the only contributors, so they’re monetizing the work of people that were under the impression that the plugin was staying open source due to clion.
if people care about such things, then they should not contribute to projects using MIT
Sure, the license allows it. This implies neither the presence of malice/sketchiness/betrayal of trust, nor the absence of it.
If we have an explicit agreement that I can mess with you (maybe we like pranks), then pointing you in the opposite direction would not be malicious, it would just be allowed according to the rules we've agreed to.
If you don't want companies taking your code closed source, there's plenty of license options to choose from.
Jetbrains have been very adamant that a rust ide was a no-go cause it’s just CLion with the Rust plugin.