Post #2176690

2026-03-27 10:34 UTC

Do not bullshit us with predatory legal text. Do not ask us to guarantee things which no company in the world can guarantee - if you want that, buy insurance instead (and even that won't solve the problem, but we can pretend for a moment that it would). Do not try to sneak into legal text transfer of copyright or ownership. You get the same license as anyone else, "despite" having paid us to do the work, but you also get all the good stuff that some other company paid for. No strings attached.

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@slink@fosstodon.org 2026-03-27 10:35

That's the deal. Take it or leave it. Final words We believe you should partner with us, a company that wants to be judged by their action and not in their words. We want to make a real difference. We see how utterly broken this whole industry is and we just decided to not play a sick game. But if this proposition does not appeal to you, fine. No bad feelings, do whatever you think is best for your company and move on. We're good.

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@leeloo@c.im 2026-03-27 11:21

@slink@fosstodon.org I think a more important thing to point out here is that the one who pays gets to decide what gets developed and how it works. Sure, the next company gets the software for free, but it's tailored to the company that paid for it. Everyone else will likely need to make customization and converters, depending on how business specific the code is (e.g. a caching webserver will require virtually no customization, compared to let's say logistics software).

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