welp, I have sent a form letter back to them with the deletion of all my accounts. Stating that I do not agree to the terms and am no longer hosting or providing code for these items and not giving them any license to any code or projects before the update to said lic. I have a poke into a IP lawyer friend of mine to see what else I need to do.
We all saw this coming and its fucking sad, I hope someone new will take up the torch (again) put down by Qualcomm.
I hope there is more I can do, and share to stop them just pillaging what was already out there, they bought the company not the IP of others. But I am sure they have scrapped all the code out there and they would just have someone repost all of it as ‘other’ users so they would control that.
I was thinking more of the presumption of ownership of customer IP being acquired as part of purchasing a company by way of a ToS change. That just seems like attempted retroactive theft to me.
welp, I have sent a form letter back to them with the deletion of all my accounts. Stating that I do not agree to the terms and am no longer hosting or providing code for these items and not giving them any license to any code or projects before the update to said lic. I have a poke into a IP lawyer friend of mine to see what else I need to do.
We all saw this coming and its fucking sad, I hope someone new will take up the torch (again) put down by Qualcomm.
Thank you for taking decisive ethical action. I hope the example you’ve set will inspire others to act similarly.
I hope there is more I can do, and share to stop them just pillaging what was already out there, they bought the company not the IP of others. But I am sure they have scrapped all the code out there and they would just have someone repost all of it as ‘other’ users so they would control that.
Hmm. That’s a good point and sounds like a fairly firm basis for a class action lawsuit.
its hard to prove if they do just the lightest bit of scrubbing for all comments and author marks.
I was thinking more of the presumption of ownership of customer IP being acquired as part of purchasing a company by way of a ToS change. That just seems like attempted retroactive theft to me.
Nah, fuck picking up that torch, what we need to do is burn Qualcomm to the ground. Every. Last. Brick.