Sure, that’s why you abandon it, make a public statement about closing shop (exactly like happens here) and then fork it under a new identity

I am serious. I have no idea what more you’re asking for, because I only access IMDb in a web browser, and I only use open source web browsers.

Maybe you could clarify?

Firefox works well. Its FOSS

If Mr. Money bags comes to you with a contract that says anything about IP or equity, tell them to fuck off

OK, so it sounds like anger should he directed at Microsoft here, not the dude that forked it

The damages causes to the developers are equal to the profits made by the company that took their code and made improvements to it, without sharing it upstream as legally required

In this age where PIs have been replaced with Facebook scrapers and lawyers have been replaced with ChatGPT, it can more easily be hidden – especially if you use tools like Tor.

Ah you’re right. Blame Vscode for using MIT. Maybe now is a good time to tell them to change it to GPL, so this can’t happen again.

Probably shouldn’t use software that will remotely log and upload things that you store to your keyboard. Should have a policy against that.

No, password managers are best practice.

If you’re upset, just ask them for the source. If they don’t respond, sue.

In any case, we’re all going to get the source and we’ll all benefit from this.

If its forked from a Foss project then its necessarily a Foss project. That’s why we use Foss licenses.

It doesn’t matter what the license chatgpt spat out says. If they forked from a Foss base repo, then all of the code they make will be FOSS too. This is great.

Don’t use your real name, obviously.

Use codeberg. Or you could self host it and just not provide contact info.

How is it boot licking to get money from rich people to develop open source software?

Lemmy is FOSS that was funded by a grant from NLNet. Its the same outcome as this.

If anyone is licking boots, its the rich people licking the FOSS boots

How? Literally how will they contact you?

This is great. So all their VC-funded work will get released publicly, and we all benefit.

I don’t see why people are upset that FOSS projects are getting VC funding for development…

Google built something

This is how open source is supposed to work. Everything they’re doing is now going to improve the open source codebase. This is good.