Likewise! Once I finally started making real money I tried to buy software I pirated early on. Even if I don’t currently use it.
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Maybe, they could try but they’re still bound by the GPL to make the source available and can not stop redistributing of the source. So they can make it difficult without violating the GPL itself. IMO it violates the spirit but not the letter.
That being said this kind of fuckery is what everyone was predicting would happen when IBM got ahold of them. I’m surprised it took this long.
Yeah that was my thoughts too. It’s not like it can’t be bypassed but it’s not “easy.” This is kinda how I see it going for commercial 3D printers. It’s not a bad thing either. I’ve always been a fan of making people earn dangerous knowledge & skills. Even in fictional universes like Star Trek there’s restrictions on using a replicator to make weapons.
So it’s not unreasonable, imho, to put some kind of guard rails up that force people to actively bypass restrictions in making weapons.
The trick will be telling the difference between making a nerf gun, action figure guns, and an actual weapon. That I don’t see being possible at this time. Too many edge cases that don’t neatly fit.