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The horrors of non-free software... When I become king of the United Continents, I will make a new rule: If you don't publish high-quality updates for your sof
by snickerer 8mo ago
The horrors of non-free software...
When I become king of the United Continents, I will make a new rule:
If you don't publish high-quality updates for your software for one year, it will become open source automatically.
- hulitu 8mo ago> If you don't publish high-quality updates for your software for one year, I don't think that Microsoft or Google will like this.
- theflyingelvis 8mo agoI don’t like it either but he’d be ‘king’ so it wouldn’t really matter if anyone liked it or not
- gus_massa 8mo agoIt's not so easy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XVI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XVI
- ben_w 8mo agoMm. I think "any" update would be sufficient for 95% of cases, doesn't have to be high-quality. Even if it's just the copyright date changing at least once per year, that tells you one specific named entity is claiming to care about it: when nobody does even that much, everyone automatically has the right to do whatever they want with the software. Which reminds me, I need to update the copyright date on my website…
- vrighter 8mo agoForced enshittification?