Comment on Anon witnesses excellent security

• 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 It had no tweaks or support, just out of date Eclipse that I had to wait for purchasing to get

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  • 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.

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    • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨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

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      • Gutek8134@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Now I wonder if one could pull a scam by selling some packaged software and closing the company the next month, simultaneously announcing End of Support

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• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I could really see companies just fork open source and give it a tweak like UI or new switches…

  They should not be able to do that if it comes under non commercial licence

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  • Landless2029@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Won’t stop some people.

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    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There is famously little money in open source those projects can spend on legal battles

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  New wealth redistribution method?

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