InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 days agoMicrosoft Tried To Steal A Project And Almost Got Away With It....www.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up153arrow-down18file-text
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minus-squareJTskulk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·5 days agoThis is clickbait. tl;dr a guy released MIT-licensed software, Microsoft forked and renamed it as they’re legally allowed to do. Hell they could even close the source and sell it if they wanted to.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24arrow-down1·4 days agoThat sounds less like clickbait and more an object lesson in the importance of copyleft to me.
minus-squareJTskulk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·4 days agoIt’s clickbait, the title implies that something wrong happened in this situation when no such thing occurred.
This is clickbait. tl;dr a guy released MIT-licensed software, Microsoft forked and renamed it as they’re legally allowed to do. Hell they could even close the source and sell it if they wanted to.
That sounds less like clickbait and more an object lesson in the importance of copyleft to me.
It’s clickbait, the title implies that something wrong happened in this situation when no such thing occurred.