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It reminds me of the story I heard around a campfire once, about a programmer who decided to fix a bug in a single AGPL module, and they were forced to make the
by labster 6y ago
It reminds me of the story I heard around a campfire once, about a programmer who decided to fix a bug in a single AGPL module, and they were forced to make their entire code open source. Even today, long after the bankruptcy, they say you can still hear the screams in the shuttered, decaying boardroom. And the bug somehow got unfixed. It’s out there now, waiting ... for its next victim.
- exhilaration 6y agoIs this a story lawyers tell around the campfire to scare new law school grads?
- labster 6y agoNot quite. That version ends with the line: “and their lawyers ... never got paid.”