Ground control to Major Trial
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Ground control to Major Trial
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#3I wonder if you can sue for breach of contract or something. Maybe not worth it... I would consider adding some actual limitations into the free trial rather than just time.
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#4Isn't this a failure by the company to recognize free trial abuse sooner? and to not close the loophole immediately seems like even more of a weak behavior. Calling them out but not taking decisive action beyond claiming that they are acting immorally ultimately accomplishes nothing. Businesses are not beholden to your ideas about what is nice and fair, but whatever the rules and constraints are to your system. if you keep a practice like this that allows free trial abuse forever, why would they spend money?
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#5I think the most depressing thing is how unsurprising this is.
This is why free trials require credit cards upfront, as they're more difficult to fake, not because you're about to be stealth billed. It's thanks to people like this.
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#6I wonder if you can sue for breach of contract or something. Maybe not worth it... I would consider adding some actual limitations into the free trial rather than just time.
Was thinking the same. If you clearly are only meant to have access for X days, and abuse a loophole to continue indefinitely, how is that far removed from hacking/scamming/stealing/pickyourpoison?
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#7Around 130$ million yearly revenue? Matches RocketLab.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/companies/rocket-lab-rev...
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#8Around 130$ million yearly revenue? Matches RocketLab. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/companies/rocket-lab-rev...
I think Rocket Lab is ~$130M quarterly, not annually. Isn't it?
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#9Isn't this a failure by the company to recognize free trial abuse sooner? and to not close the loophole immediately seems like even more of a weak behavior. Calling them out but not taking decisive action beyond claiming that they are acting immorally ultimately accomplishes nothing. Businesses are not beholden to your ideas about what is nice and fair, but whatever the rules and constraints are to your system. if yo…
You're absolutely right that businesses act within whatever constraints exist — and yes, we were a bit naive. We assumed that if someone had a fully functional, free, open source version available (well-documented and easy to install), nobody sane would go out of their way to abuse the trial system instead.
To be clear, it’s not just trial abuse — it’s actively ignoring the better, freer option in favor of repeatedly faking evaluations just to get the “easy mode.”
We’ll definitely tighten things up going forward. But in nearly a decade of doing this, they're the only ones to push it to this scale. So yeah, they've earned a spot in our open source hall of shame
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#10> We’re not going to waste days chasing them. But at some point, this goes beyond saving a few bucks: it becomes performance art.
Oh for the love of tech, do chase them. This absolutely has to be in void of the terms of your trial take them to court. If not, then at the very least name and shame the company, so some dumb manager orchestrating this silly theft will get fired and someone more mature can be rotated in.