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If a stranger walks up to the chef in a restaurant and offers to pay them to put some mystery stuff in the food, or someone walks up in during a surgery and ask
by ptx 8mo ago
If a stranger walks up to the chef in a restaurant and offers to pay them to put some mystery stuff in the food, or someone walks up in during a surgery and asks if they can make some incisions and inject some mystery stuff, would you (as a customer of the restaurant or hospital) expect this to be allowed?
- pocksuppet 8mo agoIf someone walks up to the owner in a restaurant and offers to pay them money to buy the restaurant, it's not considered suspicious.
- Ntrails 8mo agoAssuming the someone is private equity buying out, I expect the quality to drop like a stone and the place to go to hell. So. It's not suspicious. But you can rest assured as a customer it isn't good news (that doesn't make it wrong to sell ofc)
- Forgeties79 8mo agoThat isn’t remotely comparable. You’re asking someone to quietly alter someone else’s product, not selling the product to them. They didn’t pay him to change the extension, they bought it.
- ptx 8mo agoThey bought the permission to make changes to customer machines that had been granted to the seller by the customer. If it's just a sale of the source code, there's no problem. But what is bought is usually the pre-existing update channel (the installed base), precisely to be able to alter the product for existing users without explicitly informing them or asking for consent.
- Forgeties79 8mo agoI get what you’re trying to say but comparing selling your tool to pocketing money on the job to commit a crime is not the same thing.