Basically, Synergy (cross-platform keyboard and mouse sharing software) once was a one-time purchase, then moved to a subscription model. They took great pains to specify the new maintenance license did not apply to existing early adopters - see email below.
And then today I get this message saying my license is about to expire !
Is it even legal to pull something like this? In any case it's not a great way to treat early adopters !
@Natanox whoa nice thank you for this! If this HP dies, which it could any day (I already have to refuse the 11 upgrade they want to to), I don't want a machine with 11. So this is gonna have to be the way I go. I'm not some Windows fanboy but it's been semi easy-ish to use all these years just casually (and forcibly at my job 🤣) - Linux has always been in the back of my mind though, now it looks like Microsoft is fully forcing my hand 🤣😂🤣
I’m not naive; a license is as effective as pissing in the wind if you don’t have the means to enforce it. Still, any recommendation on licenses to make it as difficult as possible for people like Palmer Luckey or dtolnay to benefit from it, in general??
Permissive is good, I don’t care whether it matches a libertarian definition of “open”.
We published a transcript of "The state of software #patents in 2022" by FSF #licensing volunteer Panos, which was given during the 2022 LibrePlanet conference. The talk covers many important basics about patents and software patents in particular: https://u.fsf.org/3zr