Gap insurance anyone?
Lemmy poster VICIOUSLY ACCUSES poster of BLASTING THEIR VOICE in a SCORCHING comment!
Democrat/Republican is all a smoke show. They both agree that Israel deserves our money. You're not allowed to question it. You're not allowed to boycott them. Even bringing it up is anti-Semitic activity.
If you want to know who the real bosses are, look at who it's illegal to criticize.
Mozilla has tried so many things: I wonder if anyone there has considered releasing and maintaining a browser. They might have some luck against Chrome.
Except that current pope has been working with that org for a number of years and is a known quantity vs. some outside guy you're bringing in from the cold. A nice try at an analogy, but it doesn't quite stack up.
I wouldn’t trust that company to be their customer if I knew they operate like that
Hahaha, I suggest you never look behind the scenes at an F500 then. This would be one of the more sane things to happen in that environment.
They have always been open and clear about letting you build it and use it however you like.
I don't disagree with the want to license software like this. The downside then is a subset of "letting you build and use it any way you like" includes registering N trial accounts every 30 days. If this isn't actually spelled out as illegal under the license, some jerkbag will do it. I wish we didn't live in this world, but we do.
Company sizes must be limited by law. No person shall own more than one company, no company shall employ more than 1000 people, any company with a net worth over 50 million has taxes go to 100% for any of the worth after those 50m.
Good luck with that one. Try to convince congress critters about this point of view while they take a second or two to look up from the pork barrel. I 100% agree this would be great, I just fail to see any possible way to get there.
Easy, just have two of your staff do alternate 24/7 shifts, renewing just in time. As long as this costs less than the price of licencing the proper way, still a "win".
As a small aside "Open Source Free Trials?" If it's open source, can't they just disable the trial part? I think (as usual) some essential nuance got destroyed converting this article to a ~~clickbait~~ ~~engaging~~ exciting headline.
To anyone that isn't aware of this: big companies don't give a fuck about anything except stock price going up. They will crush dreams every quarter to do this. They don't care.
If you don't like how a company is using your software and you're hoping they will have a conscience/heart... don't! Fix your license to make this use case illegal/impossible if it really matters to you.
Or, consider if Open Source is even the right license here (although I think the headline is a bit confused here)...
If you want this "fixed", tweak your license and/or send a cease and desist to that company and/or seek damages. Changing nothing and waiting for them to do the right thing, you're going to be waiting infinitely, because they will never do the right thing. They will do the thing that gets them the most revenue with the least spending. That's all you can count on.
Is there anything, ever, that's trended towards more open?