Should add Reddit. Started out as FOSS, closed down their GitHub, then killed their API which killed dozens of third party integrations impacting hundreds of thousands of users.

It might be a good idea to do the exact opposite I.e. make a OSS whitelist. It will be much easier to maintain given the scale of applications/services/products.

The new owner of Simple Mobile Tools? Buying it and then adware stuffing? ZipoApps?

It’s probably a good idea to have a stronger definition and mission. Here are a few scenarios you should consider.

• FSF defines anything that’s not copyleft as hostile. That’s most companies. I personally don’t think I can tell my users what to do with my software other than remove my liability so I vehemently disagree with Stallman.
• Mongo wrote the SSPL and MariaDB wrote the BSL. Both licenses are seen as regressions. I personally respect the MariaDB case and have been harassed by too many Mongo salespeople to say the same about them.
• Platforms like AWS are the reason companies like CockroachDB and Elastic implemented restrictive licenses.
• IBM has been gutting open source through its acquisition of Red Hat. This is a common story; Oracle has been screwing *nix longer.
• Protecting trademarks causes a lot of consternation from users. The Rust Foundation is the most recent example of this I remember blowing up the FOSS community.

I like your idea a lot. I think it needs some definition to be very successful!

Don't forget to add Nintendo

Add Haier to the list. They’re threatening Homekit devs and issued a takedown on a GitHub hosted HVAC controller for their units. Citing it hurting their income (I assume they mean data mining income when you stop letting them monitor your appliances online).

The dev is looking for a lawyer to consult, and wants to fight, so has probably not got any copyright infringing code in his repo.

Oh and for boycotting purposes, they sell appliances under the brands: Haier, Casarte, Leader, GE Appliances, Fisher & Paykel, Aqua and Candy.

I really like seeing codeberg being used more.

Also I'm definitely keeping my eyes on this repo once in a while 👀🧐🍵

I'm shocked that the list only contains one

This seems like it could be useful info if it takes off

Add Mazda to this list please.

The developer of this plugin for HomeAssistant apparently didn't have insurance and couldn't risk the legal fight. This is the DMCA take down that Mazda issued for the reason that the code "provides functionality same as what is currently in Apple App Store and Google Play App Store"

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2023/10/2023-10-10-mazda.md

Additional Coverage: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/10/mazdas-dmca-takedown-kills-a-hobbyists-smart-car-api-tool/

We are writing to inform you that we have discovered two Home Assistant integration plug-ins developed by you ( https://github.com/Andre0512/hon and https://github.com/Andre0512/pyhOn ) that are in violation of our terms of service

Did the guy explicitly agree to their Terms of service? If not, how can he be in breach of them?

cease and desist all illegal activities

What illegal activities exactly?

Feels like unenforceable scare tactics, but IANAL.

Good to know I have never given money to anyone on the list. Just don't buy products where the manufacturer is even in a position to pull these kinds of bait-and-switch manoevers, then you won't have to worry about who they are.

Hehehe, somebody really did it after Haier's act of stupidity

As i understand google and Microsoft don't really fit here

Probably the definition should look something like: companies that proactively did actions towards harming open source culture/community/movement. Don't respect foss licensing, etc

I nominate Gitea for this one, for hijacking the project, and making it for profit organization

Also, Ultimate Guitar with their kido musescore, for basically trying to do the same thing that manga company is trying to do right now

And my favorite.. Facebook for their oculus privacy and for threatening to sue everyone who tries to jailbreak or modify their devices

Simple tools is probably not considered open source anymore

P.S. oh! Really also think about Proton, Brave, and Telegram

Three companies that are famous for saying they are foss, but in really it's often not exactly that

Proton's and telegram's servers are not foss

Telegram and brave had many instances of delaying publishing the source, even though they already updated the apps

Also, not sure how about now, but telegram is famous for having not reproducible builds, brave probably too

Surprised that most hardware companies aren't on the list. AMD, Intel, Nvidia, Apple, Broadcom all are hostile to reverse engineering or in Nvidias case, not even bothering to do the bare minimum for an ultra lenient Torvalds.

Do we even need to say nvidia?

This is awesome! Maybe it should be noted where the cutoff is. What is considered hostile behavior and what is not?

Vizio

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/may/16/vizio-remand-win/

Nice OP! Thank you! I don't have a codeberg account yet, but you can use this to easily create a TOC https://imthenachoman.github.io/nGitHubTOC.

It would be good to add links/citations as well, instead of just quotes. IE: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/haier-hits-home-assistant-plugin-dev-with-takedown-notice/