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[-] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 1 day ago

There is an entire sub-industry and probably thousands of jobs being propped up by this stupid way of thinking about software. I can't be mad at it because it pays the bills for a few of my friends...

[-] Landless2029@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

I could really see companies just fork open source and give it a tweak like UI or new switches...

Terrible.

[-] wer2@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago

At one point my company made us buy Eclipse from a vendor because free software was not allowed. It had no tweaks or support, just out of date Eclipse that I had to wait for purchasing to get

[-] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 21 hours ago

Whenever I hear about shit like this I wonder if I should just start a company and package free software lol. Could like donate a bunch of the profit to the actual projects.

[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago

The issue here is you'd be selling it to morons who, when shit inevitably happens, would sue your pants off. So that means having lawyers that can protect you, probably on staff. Not sure it's worth it. You'd need to do the maths I guess

[-] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Now I wonder if one could pull a scam by selling some packaged software and closing the company the next month, simultaneously announcing End of Support

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 points 23 hours ago

New wealth redistribution method?

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I could really see companies just fork open source and give it a tweak like UI or new switches…

They should not be able to do that if it comes under non commercial licence

[-] Landless2029@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago
[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 4 points 15 hours ago

There is famously little money in open source those projects can spend on legal battles

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