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European here. If German SAP companies want to bankrupt themselves because of global cuts on ties on FLOSS, where almost every component has some dependency on

by anthk 4y ago

European here. If German SAP companies want to bankrupt themselves because of global cuts on ties on FLOSS, where almost every component has some dependency on these in one way or another, that's ok. Look what happened to the Amiga, and former propietary software companies with in-home rewritting refusing to co-operate with standards. If they want to be the next idio... dumb CEO's trying to not be lynched form the share holders, I'm totally fine. They... won't.

unity1001 4y ago
> European here. If German SAP companies want to bankrupt themselves because of global cuts on ties on FLOSS, where almost every component has some dependency on these in one way or another, that's ok. Note how the legislation is drafted to exclude the large open source projects that these companies mooch off of - like Linux. Both the large software companies and the projects that they sponsor can afford the fines. But smaller software producers and open source projects that fund themselves through their users cant. So basically the law will kill smaller software producers and let the larger ones scoop everyone into their profitable SaaSes and installable software...