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> What's the point of this story? Bad actors win? Know your contracts. Read the fine print. Be careful who you do business with. Not all companies selling serv

by jimmar 1y ago

> What's the point of this story? Bad actors win? Know your contracts. Read the fine print. Be careful who you do business with. Not all companies selling services for open source software embrace the ethos that we assume they do. After reading the story, I can understand why somebody would not name and shame. The author could be inviting lawsuits from a company that clearly has no qualms playing dirty.

draga79 1y ago
Exactly!
lucianbr 1y ago
Something I read in the story is that the legal system fails to do its job: to make society fair. There are contracts and lawyers in the story, but they do not work toward ensuring fairness or justice, they work to help the company with more laywers and less scruples.
- bluGill 1y ago
  I know of no legal system that doesn't fail in some way. Some are much worse than others, but all have flaws. Often correcting the flaws is worse than living with them. Don't take the above as we should just accept the flaws. We should not. However what to do about them is a hard problem and we should not do something that makes things worse.
  - lucianbr 1y ago
    I'm sorry, I don't mean to be rude, but also I can't discern a single bit of useful information in your comment. It is all tautologies, and would apply to any human endeavour. Yes, nothing is perfect, it's possible to make things worse and we should avoid that. Sooo...?
    - bluGill 1y ago
      So the earlier pointing out problems isn't useful information.
      - Dylan16807 1y ago
        Everything is flawed so pointing out specific flaws is useless? Nah.
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- toyg 1y ago
  The legal system, in Italy, has been fundamentally bankrupt for a long time. It's one of the reasons a lot of foreign companies don't invest over there - if anything goes wrong, the legal system is unlikely to be of any help.
NickC25 1y ago
>The author could be inviting lawsuits from a company that clearly has no qualms playing dirty. Could it possibly involve a particularly litigious law firm masquerading as a tech company run by one rich asshole?
- sam_lowry_ 1y ago
  Oracle? Even RedHat is capable of such behaviour, and remember that the author is likely based in Italy, where companies run by crooks are the norm. But my best guess is Grommunio.

by jimmar 1y ago

draga79 1y ago

Exactly!

lucianbr 1y ago

Something I read in the story is that the legal system fails to do its job: to make society fair. There are contracts and lawyers in the story, but they do not work toward ensuring fairness or justice, they work to help the company with more laywers and less scruples.

bluGill 1y ago
I know of no legal system that doesn't fail in some way. Some are much worse than others, but all have flaws. Often correcting the flaws is worse than living with them. Don't take the above as we should just accept the flaws. We should not. However what to do about them is a hard problem and we should not do something that makes things worse.
- lucianbr 1y ago
  I'm sorry, I don't mean to be rude, but also I can't discern a single bit of useful information in your comment. It is all tautologies, and would apply to any human endeavour. Yes, nothing is perfect, it's possible to make things worse and we should avoid that. Sooo...?
  - bluGill 1y ago
    So the earlier pointing out problems isn't useful information.
    - Dylan16807 1y ago
      Everything is flawed so pointing out specific flaws is useless? Nah.
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toyg 1y ago
The legal system, in Italy, has been fundamentally bankrupt for a long time. It's one of the reasons a lot of foreign companies don't invest over there - if anything goes wrong, the legal system is unlikely to be of any help.

NickC25 1y ago

>The author could be inviting lawsuits from a company that clearly has no qualms playing dirty. Could it possibly involve a particularly litigious law firm masquerading as a tech company run by one rich asshole?

sam_lowry_ 1y ago
Oracle? Even RedHat is capable of such behaviour, and remember that the author is likely based in Italy, where companies run by crooks are the norm. But my best guess is Grommunio.