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Re:What to Do When You Get Sherlocked by Apple by semiotagonal on Saturday October 12, 2019 @11:40AM (#21233964)
The creators of this tool chose to create a company and try to actually make a living off of their idea. I don't see why this should count against them; in fact with the open-source tools of the 2000s now experiencing "license regret" over cloud services product-izing their software (e.g. MongoDB), it probably makes sense to stake out the commercial territory yourself before someone else does.

And the author isn't calling "dibs" at all; her company's product hit the market first, but she isn't claiming any right to that market.

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Re:What to Do When You Get Sherlocked by Apple by tpmx on Saturday October 12, 2019 @11:47AM (#21234033)
Maybe I'm just being old here, but MongoDB (initial release 2009) doesn't really feel like the old guard of open source to me.

Not calling dibs: fair enough.

Edit: Just noticed the pronoun you used and was confused. I vaguely remember these people (the creators of this product) from when they launched the product as, well, male.

Turns out they still are: Here's their separate blog post btw:

https://blog.astropad.com/a-message-from-astropads-founders/

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Re:What to Do When You Get Sherlocked by Apple by semiotagonal on Saturday October 12, 2019 @12:36PM (#21234396)
The founders are male, but the author of the post isn't one of the founders. I edited my previous comment to reflect the authorship.
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Re:What to Do When You Get Sherlocked by Apple by mcphage on Saturday October 12, 2019 @07:29PM (#21237079)
> And the author isn't calling "dibs" at all; her company's product hit the market first, but she isn't claiming any right to that market.

Did it? I remember hearing about Duet Display first, but maybe I just missed it.

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Re:What to Do When You Get Sherlocked by Apple by lonelappde on Saturday October 12, 2019 @12:09PM (#21234188)
That's irrelevant because you can use AGPL if you don't want your software exploited by a cloud Corp.
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Re:What to Do When You Get Sherlocked by Apple by semiotagonal on Saturday October 12, 2019 @12:20PM (#21234273)
The AGPL is exactly the thing that MongoDB dropped because their software was being monetized by cloud providers without adequate benefit to themselves.
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