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I am also not a lawyer. But I don't think a "promise" is a legally enforceable concept.
I'm not a lawyer either, but the estoppel doctrine should make it enforceable.
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Please tell me more about commercial sales of GPL software. How could I make sure that people pay me for using my desktop app if it was GPL?
A common misconception is that under GPL all your code must be released to the public. This is not true. You only have to give code to the user after purchase. Now, it's true that the user could then upload your software to the public (under gpl), but many of the issues surrounding that (such as lost sales #) aren't as bad as people imagine they are, and in the foss world are generally made up for by high-maintainenc…
How do you reconcile that
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Synergy [1] https://symless.com/synergy [2] https://github.com/symless/synergy-core
That's only some "core" for the software, not the full software, which is kept proprietary. And even that could hurt their business if somebody used the core to build their own app for the same target market on top of it.
I pretty sure their "core" naming is just another way to promote usage of paid version, but you can still compile it yourself and easily remove all license checks.
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Many things going forward will happen in reacts petri dish. Lots of ideas seeking to get consensus like the evolution of styles, animations, native performance, async scheduler, easy-to-create native renderers. Vue is nice and all, but it's rather complacent, catering to old Angular-like roots and web artefacts. If you believed the hype then Vue was supposed to be the be-all-end-all of frameworks, the reality of cour…
I don't understand the link. We don't get Vue from NPM. I assume others don't either. That implies to me that the numbers implied in that chart are inaccurate at best.
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Is there no similar penalty for intentionally foregoing due diligence specifically to avoid harsher penalties?
There is not. If you know the patent exists, you get higher (I think triple?) damages. If you don't, you don't. And you have no obligation to check. Example: There is a patent in the US on ordering food from a menu online. It's held by a NPE (aka, a patent troll), and they charge a fairly high license fee. Some people who offer online ordering to restaurants pay the license fee; others don't. If you don't pay, then y…
Thank you, Wordpress.[1] [1] https://ma.tt/2017/09/on-react-and-wordpress/
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A common misconception is that under GPL all your code must be released to the public. This is not true. You only have to give code to the user after purchase. Now, it's true that the user could then upload your software to the public (under gpl), but many of the issues surrounding that (such as lost sales #) aren't as bad as people imagine they are, and in the foss world are generally made up for by high-maintainenc…
Do you have an example of a commercially successful GPL desktop app?
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That's not what I meant. 25% of sites on the Internet run WordPress. WordPress was rewriting its editor in React, but decided to switch away due to BSD+Patents.
Right so even then, its a bit weird to say that 25% of sites decided to not go with React, but actually 25% of sites (unknowingly) use software that decided not to go with React.
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No it doesn't; read the license again. It disarms you from being the aggressor; if FB comes after you, you keep your right to counter-sue while also keeping your license to use the software.
Yes it does, Them using patents that you don't grant them and you being unable to sue them for it is definitely putting the power in their hands.
