• Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    532·
    2 days ago

    There is an entire sub-industry and probably thousands of jobs being propped up by this stupid way of thinking about software. I can’t be mad at it because it pays the bills for a few of my friends…

      • wer2@lemmy.zip
        16·
        2 days ago

        At one point my company made us buy Eclipse from a vendor because free software was not allowed. It had no tweaks or support, just out of date Eclipse that I had to wait for purchasing to get

        • arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          6·
          1 day ago

          Whenever I hear about shit like this I wonder if I should just start a company and package free software lol. Could like donate a bunch of the profit to the actual projects.

          • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
            3·
            21 hours ago

            The issue here is you’d be selling it to morons who, when shit inevitably happens, would sue your pants off. So that means having lawyers that can protect you, probably on staff. Not sure it’s worth it. You’d need to do the maths I guess

            • Gutek8134@lemmy.world
              1·
              20 hours ago

              Now I wonder if one could pull a scam by selling some packaged software and closing the company the next month, simultaneously announcing End of Support

      • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 days ago

        I could really see companies just fork open source and give it a tweak like UI or new switches…

        They should not be able to do that if it comes under non commercial licence