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> I think we've all enjoyed a luxury of people acting beyond the actual license obligations and, the largest and most-profitable companies on Earth today have
by mistrial9 3y ago
> I think we've all enjoyed a luxury of people acting beyond the actual license obligations
and, the largest and most-profitable companies on Earth today have also enjoyed a luxury beyond the actual license obligations.
To "pile on" .. it is not that "the well is running dry".. rather it is an explicit business objective to restrict the distribution of SECURITY UPDATES and in a parallel move, require those security updates to continue to operate with money doing X-y-z. Its not secret.
- freedomben 3y agoThe GPL is very clear that the software does not come with a warranty or any guarantees of fitness for any purpose. The customer has the code, they are free to fix any bugs or security holes that affect them, but they are not entitled to have other people do that work for them for free.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> The GPL is very clear that the software does not come with a warranty or any guarantees of fitness for any purpose. It does include a general warranty disclaimer, of course, in many jurisdictions, sone or all of the warranties that would exist without an explicit affirmative warranty offer also can't be negated with a disclaimer, so this may mean less than a naive reader would assume, being unnecessary where the law wouldn’t impose a warranty, and ineffective where it would.