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.
its hard to say, I need to read the last one (and maybe even more) and see what the terms of acceptance on them was. Most times by acknowlaging the terms change and in writing saying you dont agree to them and agree to stop using the things that give said terms after the change date, and even then they could try and argue ‘well xyz inside your home uses this chip/IP so you didnt follow the agreed cancellation of the terms you said you would do so we own all that code’ and xyz is some fucking low function thing in an auto speed fan. They are just as bad as disney with the you agreed to disney+ streaming service so dying from food allergy that you mentioned and the staff knew about and said was taken care of, means you cant sue us and must let us give you 500$ and send you on your way.
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.
its hard to say, I need to read the last one (and maybe even more) and see what the terms of acceptance on them was. Most times by acknowlaging the terms change and in writing saying you dont agree to them and agree to stop using the things that give said terms after the change date, and even then they could try and argue ‘well xyz inside your home uses this chip/IP so you didnt follow the agreed cancellation of the terms you said you would do so we own all that code’ and xyz is some fucking low function thing in an auto speed fan. They are just as bad as disney with the you agreed to disney+ streaming service so dying from food allergy that you mentioned and the staff knew about and said was taken care of, means you cant sue us and must let us give you 500$ and send you on your way.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they did, given what they evidently already feel entitled to.
Nah, fuck picking up that torch, what we need to do is burn Qualcomm to the ground. Every. Last. Brick.