While this is satire, it's difficult to imagine the courts accepting that license laundering is acceptible especially with companies with proprietary software actively suing others for even mentioning relicensing their own proprietary software (hyperbole but assholes like Nintendo actually exist).
Allowing the laundering of open source software would blow the whole house open for rewrites or am I missing something?
A potential dystopia I'm imagining is where only the biggest billionaire backed companies own the software and refuse to share anything screwing over all consumers and competitors (especially with toxifying the open source community). I hate to say it but we might not be far from this hellscape of a future.
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recursive_recursion@piefed.ca · 11 pts · 102d
While this is satire, it's difficult to imagine the courts accepting that license laundering is acceptible especially with companies with proprietary software actively suing others for even mentioning relicensing their own proprietary software (hyperbole but assholes like Nintendo actually exist).
Allowing the laundering of open source software would blow the whole house open for rewrites or am I missing something?
A potential dystopia I'm imagining is where only the biggest billionaire backed companies own the software and refuse to share anything screwing over all consumers and competitors (especially with toxifying the open source community). I hate to say it but we might not be far from this hellscape of a future.
certified_expert@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 102d
Holy shit! It got me solid for half of the video. Wait... is this satire? Is it?
terabyterex@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 102d
yes. their site is gold
artyom@piefed.social · 7 pts · 101d
Cant watch videos on YT, tldw?
terabyterex@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 102d
just want to be clear.. this is satire