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> Won't be a boon for OSS, any author would be idiotic to read stolen source code and then decide to create a OSS library/project based on what they learn from
by EMIRELADERO 4y ago
> Won't be a boon for OSS, any author would be idiotic to read stolen source code and then decide to create a OSS library/project based on what they learn from it.
With the current geopolitical situation going on, is this really true? (From a western developer's perspective)
- nyolfen 4y agothe US and russia are both parties to the berne convention, the law still applies even if a bunch of misc russian people and orgs had their assets seized
- EMIRELADERO 4y agoIt's not about whether it applies, but whether there is any will to enforce it. Would the US government cooperate in the indictment and prosecution of a US citizen, on behalf of a de-facto enemy nation, for a company that has ties and is allegedly controlled by the government of said nation?
- nyolfen 4y agoit's not criminal law, yandex can hire a lawyer in the US
- mtnGoat 4y agoBut could they find a judge/jury sympathetic to any Russian concerns?
- fsckboy 4y agocourts decide much more based on law than sympathies, seriously
- FpUser 4y agoYou saying that US judges lack the integrity to issue impartial judgement?
- mtnGoat 4y agoYes, I’m partially implying that and the records speak for themselves.
- dotancohen 4y agoI would love to see the records that you are referring to. Not isolated incidents, rather something suggestive that one could confidently bring a sympathy-based argument in deference of law and expect a high probability of succeeding.
- mtnGoat 4y agoI wasn’t saying anything about sympathy. If you think US courts are fair, I’d suggest you do your own research.
- computerfriend 4y agoWhat records are you talking about?
- mtnGoat 4y agoThe history of Justice in the US.
- froggit 4y agoThe "history of justice in the US" is an extremely broad generalization. Justice has had a lot of history. If all of it pointed to judges being unable to be impartial than the legal system would likely have failed long ago. Which specific occurences are you referring to? Just one is fine, it only takes a single positive to disprove a negative.
- Scoundreller 4y agoIt's technically a dutch company. They had to do some business manoeuvres to continue operations. https://ir.yandex/ https://ir.yandex/
- elkos 4y agoyandex is currently based in the Netherlands
- rcfox 4y agoEven if Russia were at war with the world, it would still be unethical to loot its citizens' property.
- EMIRELADERO 4y agoIntellectual property is a social construct that society decided was important enough. Often times there is no direct correlation between the "effort" and the "compensation" that IP enforcement enables.
- LudwigNagasena 4y agoProperty rights are a social construct regardless of whether the property in question is intellectual. So what?
- vkou 4y agoYou are correct. Any bit of property that you aren't personally in physical possession of is a social construct. Social consensus is the only reason that you can leave your car at the curb, and come back to it a week later, and still expect it to be yours. Social consensus is the only reason that you can own land that you don't personally use. Social consensus is the only thing that prevents people working at your widget factory from deciding on Tuesday that its actually their widget factory, and that they would be better off by cutting out the middleman. There are very rare, very extreme situations in which this kind of social consensus is very prominently broken.
- bobkazamakis 4y agoIt should be treated the same way they've treated royalties.
- The_Colonel 4y agoYandex is complicit in the war and willingly helping Russian government with censorship. Its existence is unethical.