Comment on Anon witnesses excellent security
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month 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 1 month ago
I could really see companies just fork open source and give it a tweak like UI or new switches…
Terrible.
wer2@lemmy.zip 1 month 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 It had no tweaks or support, just out of date Eclipse that I had to wait for purchasing to get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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
They should not be able to do that if it comes under non commercial licence
Landless2029@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Won’t stop some people.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 month ago
There is famously little money in open source those projects can spend on legal battles
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 month ago
New wealth redistribution method?