Comment on Ground control to Major Trial: When a $130M aerospace company chooses to endlessly abuse opensource free trials instead of typing git pull, you start to question gravity, or at least common sense.

Geodad@lemm.ee ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• fullsquare@awful.systems ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Maybe their idea is that publicly embarrassing oligarch boss of that company would be more effective in getting them to either use source code or buying a license

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  • jjlinux@lemmy.ml ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For that to have any impact, the abusing company leadership would need to have the ability to feel some level of shame. I honestly believe that most don’t have any ability for that.

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    • fullsquare@awful.systems ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      consider the following: they already don’t get money from them and also showing to wide audience that musk (and his people at spacex) is a inept penny-pinching scumbag can be a nice hobby

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      • Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Wait this is SpaceX? I thought it was another company tbh, I was under the impression that SpaceX revenue was in the billion at this point.

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      • jjlinux@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Oh, absolutely, but it’s still an exercise in futility if the goal is to have any impact on the offending company’s demeanor and course of action.

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  • Geodad@lemm.ee ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Corporations are not people. They don’t have feelings.

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  • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Then they would have needed to do something to publicly embarrass the company; so far they’ve only publicly embarrassed themselves

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    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Real talk. Open source FREE FUCKING TRIAL‽ Like it’s the very least you could do is close that one obvious, glaring, foreseeable loophole. I mean if they had one half way decent developer, they could’ve just created their own version with an in hours GUI.

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• Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Right? I was thinking that after a decade at some point it becomes your fault if you’re not taking steps against them. But no, not even a cease and desist.

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  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think a moderately competent lawyer would be able to build a case. Of course, it would get tied up in court for a while, but protecting IP is a big part of IP law (more on trademark I think, but IANAL). The C&D should have been sent a long time ago. It’s possible that this is a department that’s “moving fast and breaking things” and higher-ups said no to the license. In no way should that be considered to excuse the behaviour.

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