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Re:TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS by mysterydip on Friday December 17, 2021 @11:31AM (#29594431)
Why would a company the size of tiktok want to depend on some open source project maintaining a URL? Would they be liable if it instead redirected to malware?
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Re:TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS by adolph on Friday December 17, 2021 @12:35PM (#29595416)
> a company the size of tiktok

Is made up of smaller teams composed of individuals who may or may not take shortcuts and make good decisions on behalf of their company. If the choice is between "executive said 'hey use this open source in secret'" or "programmer took shortcut," my bet is on the latter.

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Re:TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS by mr_toad on Saturday December 18, 2021 @10:51PM (#29611140)
And management never reads the code.
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Re:TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS by Sebb767 on Friday December 17, 2021 @12:17PM (#29595143)
Possibly. But most likely there was a bug "crashing when DirectX is not installed" and some developer hacked a silent install for DirectX in without thinking too much.
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Re:TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS by OmegaMetor on Saturday December 18, 2021 @06:32PM (#29609776)
A OBS developer went into detail here [1] about how they figured this out. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29592103#29595349
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