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Because there's no legal and/or social infrastructure in place that demands the bounty hunter shares their winnings. The way things are right now, the bounty h
by exikyut 9y ago
Because there's no legal and/or social infrastructure in place that demands the bounty hunter shares their winnings.
The way things are right now, the bounty hunter could argue that the very idea of the statement above is absurd - and that demonstrates how broken things are.
I can't help but agree more and more as time goes by that maybe Linux is getting too big for its own good. I do wonder how it'll topple.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoThere's legal precedent. If one dev proves their copyright was infringed by failure to comply with the contractual obligations set through the OSS license, then the court more than likely will find for every other dev too. The "bounty hunter" will get paid the damages against them, not the damages against the community, there's no reason to disperse them. If someone does a hit-and-run and hits several people with their car, one of those people suing and getting damages from the malfeasant isn't a bad thing, nor is it something we should frown on IMO.
- exikyut 9y agoThis is very correct, and I can't argue with it. However, the basis of this post was that one person's actions were exploitative from the perspective of the community. I'm just saying it's sad that there wasn't sufficient precedent of some kind to dissuade what happened from occurring.