Comment on Anon witnesses excellent security
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
There is an entire sub-industry and probably thousands of jobs being propped up by this stupid way of thinking about software. I can’t be mad at it because it pays the bills for a few of my friends…
Landless2029@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I could really see companies just fork open source and give it a tweak like UI or new switches…
Terrible.
wer2@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
At one point my company made us buy Eclipse from a vendor because free software was not allowed. It had no tweaks or support, just out of date Eclipse that I had to wait for purchasing to get
arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Whenever I hear about shit like this I wonder if I should just start a company and package free software lol. Could like donate a bunch of the profit to the actual projects.
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The issue here is you’d be selling it to morons who, when shit inevitably happens, would sue your pants off. So that means having lawyers that can protect you, probably on staff. Not sure it’s worth it. You’d need to do the maths I guess
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They should not be able to do that if it comes under non commercial licence
Landless2029@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Won’t stop some people.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
There is famously little money in open source those projects can spend on legal battles
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
New wealth redistribution method?