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#192As a solo-founder I have experienced this on a massive scale over nearly 15 years. It's really strange how happy people are with unethical behavior, yet on my end it just doesn't feel right to cut off peoples systems. After multiple attempts to contact them, we will often disable their accounts. It is against the social contract. It is stealing. In many cases companies may have 15+ free trial accounts, the company it…
Same. Large companies keep freeloading and ask for support. They buy a single personal license and share it among employees. And it’s not some small shops from poor countries, where you can understand it, it’s (often German) enterprises…
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#193I got distracted a few paragraphs in by the realization that the text was AI-generated.
I first write my entire text and then after that I use a LLM to fix the grammar and have a better flow. I'm doing my best but I'm not a native US speaker. Before LLMs, people complained about the weird sentences or mistakes I made. Pick your poison ;) Anyway, I'm doing my best to keep my own "signature" in writing, but it's really hard when you see a better phrasing generated on your original more limited vocabulary.…
Give DeepL Writer a try.
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#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m actually considering reaching out directly to the CEO and telling the full story. But honestly? There’s a good chance he’s fully aware — and totally fine with it. That’s part of what makes it so disappointing. We’re not rushing into legal action — it’s not worth the energy for now — but publicly calling out the behavior felt necessary. It also sends a message to others in the ecosystem about the kind of nonsense…
> publicly calling out the behavior > I’m still holding off on naming the company directly Does not compute. Why not name them?
Sounds a lot like it is BlackSky NYSE: BKSY
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250508909866/en/Bla...
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It costs your reputation as a vendor which is permanent. You say that as if that is some bad thing. As a vendor you want to have a reputation for asking what you are fairly owed. The other option is to have a reputation for being a wet tissue anyone can walk through. > You don't threaten legal action against companies before calmly advising them of the situation. These are not incompatible with each other. Of cours…
> As a vendor you want to have a reputation for asking what you are fairly owed. They've never asked the company. Instead you want to jump straight to legal action which is insane.
> Instead you want to jump straight to legal action which is insane.
Read again my comment.
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
Starlink has launched over 4000 satellites.
4000 VMs doesn't imply 4k satellites, does it? Regarding revenues, it may be correct if it is a specific division of SL. Anyways, OneWeb has 130+ millions in annual revenues (and a fleet of 400+ satellites, which would result in 10 VMs per satellite I truly loved the way this article is written. To the point, sharp and quite comical. I certainly hope they achieve to clean the mess up.
My bad, I misread.or nmisunderstood.
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#197It’s probably time to channel larry ellison and shake these guys down. Or at least shake their pockets for loose change. They are stealing from you. As you point out you go out of your way to help companies with your oss options: you’re way on the right side of principled and generous. this is abuse. Don’t put up with it. Given the history, I’d suggest a short C&D recounting the 10 years(!) of theft, the measures the…
I agree. The company will almost immediately settle because this is a cut and dry theft that will cost them (literally) millions just in the recoup. More if a penalty can be applied. This won't go to court, the actions are indefensible. The only argument will be how much they have to pay the OPs company.
“… and that’s how we ended up owning 5% of the company!”
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#198Terran Orbital. A Lockheed Martin company.
There are a lot of private space companies but only a few fit the “semi-governmental” description. Lockheed is one of them.
Revenue numbers for 2024 fit also. For Terran Orbital that is. Obviously Lockheed does WAY more than that.
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
This doesn’t make sense as a risk… can’t anyone in the US already sue anyone else whenever?
Yes but the company in question has no motive to sue. They aren't named and any lawsuit would be completely fraught and easily dismissed. On top of that, they would be revealing themselves by suing. It gets more complicated if they are named and now have an actual reason.
How do you know they wouldn’t have any reason or motive beforehand?
It seems quite possible for it to just be less strong but more than nothing.
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#200Dealing with this right now as a consultant. Also a 'semi-govt' company, with much more in annual revenue than in this article, running a highly critical production workload, and is having problems with a ESOL version Open Source software - that they are scared to touch/upgrade, and that is available in a fully up-to-date version, for purchase, with support etc., and indirectly asking us to support it, by essentially pawning off any and all changes related to said SW to me. Well, I recommended the upgrade path (to a current/supported and paid version) and I stopped making any changes to that component. They are still hemming an hawing, its unbelievable.