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If your software is free and the maintainers aren't getting paid then a few Easter eggs are a small price to pay. Colin was being paid, of course, but not prim
by sambeau 2y ago
If your software is free and the maintainers aren't getting paid then a few Easter eggs are a small price to pay.
Colin was being paid, of course, but not primarily for maintaining man.
Having said that, I once worked at a company (incidentally one where Colin worked, though after he'd left to join Ubuntu) where a developer added a line to the T&Cs that meant that a user granted their soul to the company. The intention was to check if the execs/legals checked the T&Cs like they promised to. They did not. Many souls were captured.
- eastbound 2y agoIt could make the entire T&C invalid.
- alanbernstein 2y agoWhy, is the soul an established legal concept? Or just the fact that nobody checked the thing?
- opello 2y agoPresumably if the T&C didn't have a severability clause the impossible soul capturing part could be argued to invalidate the entirety.
- lolinder 2y agoDo any T&Cs not have a severability clause? I'm not a lawyer and have written exactly one semi-legal document ever, but even I knew to put one of those in.
- eastbound 2y agoNo, it’s the fact that someone is joking in the ToS, proves that no-one can take it seriously. It would require a phrase like “If any term is considered invalid, it doesn’t invalidate the others”, but even this sentence is not always applicable.