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But isn't this exactly the same thing Canonical did with Ubuntu? Heck, Mozilla did it for Firefox. All the trademark does is stop people calling the modified ve
by wizzwizz4 5y ago
But isn't this exactly the same thing Canonical did with Ubuntu? Heck, Mozilla did it for Firefox. All the trademark does is stop people calling the modified version “Elementary OS” – not stop them modifying it.
I was giving the author benefit-of-the-doubt earlier, but this follow-up just seems… petty, if not malicious.
> Their respective communities seem convinced that you can pirate GPL software, which I find fascinating.
But nowhere do they say it's illegal to do so. They consider the distribution to be akin to illegal piracy, because they consider it the Done Thing to pay for the Pro distros.
- ddtaylor 5y ago> They consider the distribution to be akin to illegal piracy, because they consider it the Done Thing to pay for the Pro distros. Regardless of how someone else pays for software doesn't change the rights the GPL affords everyone else.
- wizzwizz4 5y agoAnd they still can – just not in that subreddit. (I didn't expect the free speech debate to appear here.)
- jarcane 5y agoYes, and it was a shit thing when Ubuntu did it too. Literally drove the creator of Kubuntu out of the project on trumped up bullshit when he wouldn't play along (and also kept asking questions about the 120k of donations that went missing ...)