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Re:Ask HN: Founders who offer free/OS and paid SaaS, how do ... by reaperman on Monday May 13, 2024 @07:44PM (#40349917)
Could an individual of ill-repute freely download the source containing the EE and edit it to turn off checks for KEYGEN_EDITION and KEYFEN_MODE? Obviously you have license protection against them redistributing the modified version but would anything practical prevent them from running it themselves?
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Re:Ask HN: Founders who offer free/OS and paid SaaS, how do ... by ezekg on Monday May 13, 2024 @07:54PM (#40350001)
It'd be a violation of the license terms. Other than that, I may send Liam Neeson after them. :)
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Re:Ask HN: Founders who offer free/OS and paid SaaS, how do ... by killingtime74 on Monday May 13, 2024 @08:58PM (#40350426)
His very specific set of skills is hunting down license term violators
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Re:Ask HN: Founders who offer free/OS and paid SaaS, how do ... by cushpush on Monday May 13, 2024 @10:58PM (#40351234)
>...but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career.
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Re:Ask HN: Founders who offer free/OS and paid SaaS, how do ... by spoonjim on Monday May 13, 2024 @09:33PM (#40350682)
Almost all software company revenues come from business customers who are too big to mess with stuff like this.
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Re:Ask HN: Founders who offer free/OS and paid SaaS, how do ... by Suppafly on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @05:48PM (#40360543)
This. We have a few different things at work where it would be trivial for me to modify the database to allow unlimited users or grant access we don't pay for, but it'd be mostly pointless.
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Re:Ask HN: Founders who offer free/OS and paid SaaS, how do ... by komali2 on Monday May 13, 2024 @09:50PM (#40350822)
Yes, and most places that do this (e.g. OpenProject) don't have licenses preventing this, so I have deployed, and shimmed out the enterprise blockers, many Foss sass tools.
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Re:Ask HN: Founders who offer free/OS and paid SaaS, how do ... by justsomehnguy on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @07:51AM (#40354179)
> but would anything practical

But would be it practical to go for a such guy?

There are always... stupid people who use hacked software 'because the employer don't have money', but I guess someone with a skill enough to read and patch such code is fully aware how the things are working and wouldn't be doing such stupid deeds.

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