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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Do you not see the contradiction in this statement? Where do you find the line of what is stealing and “working as intented”?

    If you redistribute someone else’s open source code as open source but change nothing why would I get it from you and not the original developer? There is no incentive and no reward to “steal”.

    If you make enough changes to create additional value I might and then it is “working as intended”



  • The developer can yank the software from under you, he can change the monetisation model, or he can drop support for the software. With Free or Open Source software you could just take over the responsibility of maintainership or outsource it some other developer you can trust instead.

    Sure, good point but in the real world this will never happen.

    If Mozilla suddenly decides to implode you won’t just casually take over Firefox or hire another maintainer to develop it for you.

    In theory this sounds nice but for any software that is of any real complexity (and thus use) it is pretty much irrelevant.







  • The Valve that pushed always online drm to the masses? That Valve that takes 30% of every purchase made on their monopolistic platform?

    Yes, that Valve.

    Let’s not pretend Valve hasn’t gotten to where it was against consumer interest and especially not that Valve is some kind of a good guy.

    One more on top: That Valve that had to be forced to offer refunds and to this day offers the worst customer support in the industry by choice? (Yes that one)






  • That is in part because the reddit algorithm doesn’t like thoughtful contributions. These take time and understanding of the discussed matter. When your metric is positive (upvote) interaction per timeframe you need easily digestable content that people immediately react to. If I have to carefully read and think about the content my vote/comment is far too late to be “hot” on reddit.