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479 points plam503711 | 3 comments | 16 May 25 12:03 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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florbnit ◴[16 May 25 12:21 UTC] No.44004552[source]▶
> We’re not going to waste days chasing them. But at some point, this goes beyond saving a few bucks: it becomes performance art.

Oh for the love of tech, do chase them. This absolutely has to be in void of the terms of your trial take them to court. If not, then at the very least name and shame the company, so some dumb manager orchestrating this silly theft will get fired and someone more mature can be rotated in.

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1. nand_gate ◴[16 May 25 20:11 UTC] No.44009381[source]▶
We're not going to waste days chasing them when we could waste days writing a blog post to advertise our product.

Genius marketing, I guess Rocket Company is supposed to be exploiting the OSS community, but who built Xen ;)

Before you soapbox on the 'open source moral contract' consider repaying the OSS works you gladly derived.

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2. fohdeesha ◴[16 May 25 20:45 UTC] No.44009674[source]▶
....have you seen how much code and work vates has contributed upstream to xen? It's more than citrix at this point IIRC. Everything they do gets pushed back to upstream projects so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make
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3. nand_gate ◴[16 May 25 21:37 UTC] No.44009988[source]▶
No, I don't follow legacy hypervisors but fair enough perhaps my initial impression was off-base... still you can appreciate the irony of complaining about Rocket Company getting free stuff :/