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Someone's making money selling software! Let's put them out of business!
by danielweber 11y ago
Someone's making money selling software! Let's put them out of business!
- toomuchtodo 11y agoSomeone's using arguably overly aggressive copyright laws to squeeze someone for cash they couldn't possibly come up with! Let's debate the ethics of selling software! EDIT: The proper way to handle this would've been to say "Hey! Your site license doesn't cover this. Please don't do it again, as we depend on that license revenue to pay our bills to write great software."
- masklinn 11y ago> The proper way to handle this would've been to say "Hey! Your site license doesn't cover this. Please don't do it again, as we depend on that license revenue to pay our bills to write great software." That's mostly the proper way to get people to not care and end up killing your business anyway.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoAs opposed to "Fuck these guys"? Even if their software isn't replaced with an open source alternative, this buys enough bad will to have someone patch their binaries to prevent them from calling home and distributing them via torrents. That seems far more likely to kill their business.
- pyre 11y agoRegardless of whether it's right or wrong the narrative is more like: > Someone that's selling proprietary software is > acting like an ass, let's teach them a lesson.