I still have a floor lamp next to my desk that was given to me broken, which I took apart and fixed. The way the little mechanism works to turn the thing on was (a) not that hard to fix once I looked at it, it’s all just wires my dude (b) absolutely fascinatingly interesting in how simple and clever the design is. I was actually really impressed and happy that I took the trouble to take it apart and muck with it.
At one point I invested in a $10 light bulb from Home Depot because the packaging assured me that it would last for years and years and so it was actually better than the big packages of ones that were cheap. It stopped working in a few weeks. I went back and asked one of their valued team members about it, and he said maybe the “board” on it “went out,” which apparently happens to them a lot.
I kind of knew when I bought it that it was bullshit, but I didn’t expect it to be such bullshit.
More like, neighbour invites everybody to their pool, but if you go, you have to sign a legal agreement that you invite everybody to your whole house.
Incorrect. No one gets access to the rest of your company’s source code. It’s just that, since they gave you a ton of wonderful stuff for free, you have to do likewise if you’re going to build on their stuff. If you don’t want that, then go find some other swimming pool so to speak (which it sounds like you’ve done).
It boggles my mind how people think this is unintended. “My company tried to build on GPL3 software, but IDK if the authors realized this, but we’re not allowed to do that unless we share our contributions back in turn! What an error! As soon as they find out, they’ll surely change the licensing to one that is more amenable to what we want to do in terms of reselling their source code to people without complying on our end with the GPL!”
I can pretty much guarantee you, this will not be a surprise to the people who licensed their code GPL. We have been having this conversation for decades. Your input as to whether it’s “beneficial” to them to restrict you from doing what they don’t want you to do is noted.
“How dare my neighbor put a fence around his pool! I tell you, ever since he did that, my kids can’t swim there and we’ve had to figure out something else to do.”
Just to make sure, it is still a good idea to have a contractor over to take a look. Water may have been in the walls for a while before it came out the downstairs ceiling, and if you now have issues with mold or rot, they will be cheaper to resolve the sooner you start trying to resolve them.
Because Americans are louder and tend not to confine their activities to the country-specific forums
