What's the point of this story? Bad actors win?
Here's a hot take: Name and Shame.
If this story is true, the author should be shouting their names from the rooftop.
Instead, we get this nonsense.
Here's a hot take: Name and Shame.
If this story is true, the author should be shouting their names from the rooftop.
Instead, we get this nonsense.
The "FOSS" company never directly threatened the author, but the implication of it alone was enough to scare off both agencies. Given a lot of the tech is mixed up here on purpose, there's a few FOSS companies & vendors I can think of with legal departments that I'd describe as "pretty aggressive" and "expensive for a managed solution" that aren't solely about Exchange related services but would definitely behave like this, given their PR over the years at times has had slipped masks.
The point is that without the identifying information it might as well be a creative writing exercise.
Good anecdotes have power because they actually happened and are verifiable to some degree. This is neither.
This basically sums up modern corporate status quo. T
> "pretty aggressive"
The legal system has been weaponized against the average person. This is the veil it hides behind. A legal department can be downright boring yet vicious at the same time. Like how they slow roll any employee legal dispute to the maximum legal time limit in expectation that they can financially out wait the employee. Which they almost always can.
Know your contracts. Read the fine print. Be careful who you do business with. Not all companies selling services for open source software embrace the ethos that we assume they do.
After reading the story, I can understand why somebody would not name and shame. The author could be inviting lawsuits from a company that clearly has no qualms playing dirty.
Don't take the above as we should just accept the flaws. We should not. However what to do about them is a hard problem and we should not do something that makes things worse.
Could it possibly involve a particularly litigious law firm masquerading as a tech company run by one rich asshole?
Even RedHat is capable of such behaviour, and remember that the author is likely based in Italy, where companies run by crooks are the norm.
But my best guess is Grommunio.
That's easier said than done, hence why Stefano probably didn't.