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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • The analogy is that you buy a car (because if it breaks, the car and your entertainment stuff, you will buy a new one to replace it, you will also carry all maintenance) but suddenly you can’t drive backwards anymore because the manufacturer decided retroactively that you should pay extra for that (possibly in a subscription).

    I would say it is your good right then to make your car drive backwards regardless of what it may take.










  • Do you not see the contradiction in this statement? Where do you find the line of what is stealing and “working as intented”?

    If you redistribute someone else’s open source code as open source but change nothing why would I get it from you and not the original developer? There is no incentive and no reward to “steal”.

    If you make enough changes to create additional value I might and then it is “working as intended”



  • The developer can yank the software from under you, he can change the monetisation model, or he can drop support for the software. With Free or Open Source software you could just take over the responsibility of maintainership or outsource it some other developer you can trust instead.

    Sure, good point but in the real world this will never happen.

    If Mozilla suddenly decides to implode you won’t just casually take over Firefox or hire another maintainer to develop it for you.

    In theory this sounds nice but for any software that is of any real complexity (and thus use) it is pretty much irrelevant.