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“Ending up in court” vs “Microsoft suing you.” I think the implication is that if MS simply decided to unilaterally fork the project and change the license, the

“Ending up in court” vs “Microsoft suing you.” I think the implication is that if MS simply decided to unilaterally fork the project and change the license, the OS maintainer’s only real recourse is the court system (and the court of public opinion), and that would be expensive.

debugnik 1y ago
Except MS did it anyway: the author cooperated and MS still forked and removed the original copyright notice. Since this isn't the first time MS does this to a FOSS maintainer, it's clear this tactic doesn't help us.