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Not really. You’d have to make sure you either own the software you ship or that software is already available freely so you don’t get into the space cadet sit
by thanksgiving 3y ago
Not really. You’d have to make sure you either own the software you ship or that software is already available freely so you don’t get into the space cadet situation like Microsoft Windows.
> Space Cadet Pinball was not originally written by Microsoft, but was rather obtained via licensing from a company then-known as Cinematronics. This means that there are restrictions on what can be done with the program, as spelled out by the license agreement.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20181221-00/?p=100535 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20181221-00/?p=10...
The change would be you can’t ship software like this… I would say that is a net positive.
- baggy_trough 3y agoWhy should your preferred software licensing policies be legally mandated and binding on others such as myself?
- josephcsible 3y agoIf you don't want others' preferred software licensing policies to be legally mandated and binding on you, are you in favor of abolishing copyright for software?
- baggy_trough 3y agoI think software authors should be able to decide their terms of use, so no.
- thanksgiving 3y agoThat is the fundamental difference between free software and open source. Free software centers around the user. Everything else is a means to that end. Open source centers around the authors. This is fundamentally misguided. I couldn’t give two [deleted] about authors and what they want.