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Until IBM / Red Hat acquires that fork just like they did CentOS

• yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago
  A community-controlled organization could just opt to not be acquired (and indeed should, given this precedent).
  • toyg 6y ago
    This sort of cloning effort tend to live in contractual grey areas. Would that community (of people who got together to avoid paying for licenses) be ready to pay to defend developers from expensive lawsuits filed by one of the wealthiest corporates on the planet? Or rather, would developers in charge of such projects believe that? An acqui-hire with fuck-you money on one side, vs years of pain and likely bankruptcy - it’s not really a choice, is it?
    • yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago
      ...the contractual grey area of assembling a software distribution of open-source software in keeping with the license of that software? What exactly are they going to have a lawsuit over?
      • toyg 6y ago
        There is always something, like Samba and whatnot - some build system you claim copyright to, or some utility with a different license etc etc. It doesn’t need to be a slam dunk, it doesn’t need to win at all, it just has to be enough to keep a lawsuit running for a year or so. The legal system can be used as a DDOS in many, many situations, even when the defendant is spotless.