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Is there a way to file lawsuits for such cases? These incidents lead to death of open-source and crush hearts of open-source developers.
I believe that BusyBox sued over violations like 17 years ago. I am not aware of any other instances.
What a joke. Nearly as many upvotes as tmux-rs in half the time, ~50% more comments, and this is just shy of the front page / twice as far from #1. Doesn’t seem to match the natural algorithm.
If anything, the statistics actually suggest these articles were weighted the other way around . tmux-rs stayed on the frontpage much longer than it logically should have, especially compared to this thread. https://hnrankings.info/44455787/ https://hnrankings.info/44460552/ ...in any case, what's the "joke" about this? GPL violation is very serious, Tesla was forced to publish a substantial amount of proprietary cod…
This is the second time in less than a year something similar has happened. Previously, a different YC company (Pear AI) copied Continue, changed the licenses, and "launched". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41707495 I wonder if Pear AI is dead or pivoted, their open source repos have not been updated since May.
Maybe a kind of hall of shame is needed, where these companies are listed, and perhaps a link to a history of how the issue was dealt with.
HN seems to be fine with that (!).
We are in a crisis of morals. There has always been trashy people but since 2020 it feels like a lack of morals is rewarded more than ever.
" Since this was our first tax reporting, we didn’t realize at first that we're supposed to declare our income. We’ve now revised it. "
You are joking but that's exactly how it works as long as you are a company (and the bigger/more connected it is the better). Don't pay your debts as a person: you quickly get hit with fees, chased by collections, etc. Don't pay your debts as a company: sorry, it was merely a clerical error by our accounting department. Nothing to see here. Lie and profit from it as an individual: that's called fraud and could land y…
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I submitted a PR to fix a bug in cloud-init a while ago. It was in my interest to do so, because it means I benefit from fixed packages in the Linux distributions I use. This saves me a ton of time in not having to maintain my own packages with my fix included. If it helps Canonical make money, then it’s no skin off my nose because I still got the benefit I wanted. I’m not going around fixing bugs that don’t affect m…
That’s why I made the patch to Disruptor as well, because I needed the change and I didn’t want to maintain it. I’m not saying that that’s valueless but I still think programmers should not be giving free labor to corporations. Canonical is at least a little better since they’re a much more FOSS-first company as opposed to a trading corporation, but my opinion still is the same with them. Also, completely unrelated,…
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The evidence clearly shows it was not a 'dumb mistake' They claim they wrote the whole thing in 4 days. They did not attribute the original author in ANY way. They clearly showed they intended to steal the authors work and sell it as if they wrote it. YC has just become such a dumpster fire if that kind behaviour is even remotely accepted or called a 'dumb mistake'
Original Author should have put 4 lines atop each source with then as copyright holder. https://github.com/sohzm/cheating-daddy/blob/master/LICENSE#... . I sometimes make GPL and forget that bit too
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The first rule of HN moderation is that we moderate (i.e., intervene) less if a story reflects negatively on a YC company or YC itself. This principle goes right back to pg days, and was the first thing he taught dang [1]. That said, it doesn't mean we avoid moderation at all and it doesn't mean the guidelines all go out the window. Different factors influence the story's rank and visibility on the front page: upvote…
> The first rule of HN moderation is that we moderate (i.e., intervene) less if a story reflects negatively on a YC company or YC itself. Unless you have transparency on flagging and mod actions, these are just your words. And as these events keep happening, your credibility erodes.
Isn't this the company/founders whose whole sales pitch is about cheating/deceiving others? I guess I am not that surprised then.
Is there a way to validate this?
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I have yet to hear a convincing case for why what the LLM vendors did/do is different than what humans do to learn and become proficient in producing their own work. Do you owe everyone you have ever read a royalty for influencing your writing style or voice? How about for all the other things you have leaned and become competent in? There is a bigger issue here that is related to what humanity actually is and how we…
The only difference is that the people getting upset about this stuff is money. They hate the idea that someone is making money off their work. Even if the sum of their work amounts to a penny. They're just angry. In 50 years they'll be useless anyway when computers are just plotting every iteration and combination of 1's and 0's that might be. I too see no difference in machines learning from the works of others tha…
However, when you look at the license of the software I release, there are some terms I put forward. In short, it’s called GPLv3+ or AGPLv3+ depending on the thing I have written. You can use/develop/fork/integrate/sell it. I don’t care, as long as you obey the license terms.
Don’t obeying these terms, and running with the code is wrong. Even if you put the laws aside, that’s unethical. This is what makes my blood boil.
I do not develop software as a job. I do it as a side quest, and more importantly as research. I don’t want my research to be laundered and closed down, but be available and free as much as possible. This is why I use copyleft licenses.
If you care about developer freedom, you write Open Source code with permissive licenses. If you care about users’ freedom, you write Free Software with copyleft licenses.
I care about users’ freedom, not developers’ freedom to rip any code and embed into their code bases, which permissive licenses are designed for.
This blatant selfishness of “we are doing something great, we need no permission” is angering me.
Otherwise, get my scrappy code and make a million dollars with it. As long as you obey the license, I don’t care. On the contrary, I applaud you.