And if not that they'll comply with the letter but not the spirit so you're going to have to send them snail mail or fax to receive a copy of the open source parts but it won't build because they have a whole slew of requirements that you'll never be able to meet.
Malicious compliance.
Most recent example: Rigol.
Re:Open-source is not noble
by onesandofgrain on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @06:54PM
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Exactly.
Re:Open-source is not noble
by fuzzfactor on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @07:11PM
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Yup, I agree with you 100% here.
This is exactly what should not be possible to happen.
Would you believe I said the same damn thing after initially joining here almost a decade ago, and got karma bombed at the time for even suggesting the possibility.
Funny how times have changed.
Re:Open-source is not noble
by onesandofgrain on Thursday February 19, 2026 @12:21AM
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Use https://outspeaker.com instead
Amazon stole elasticsearch (opensearch), apple made appstore from the ideas of cydia/installer.app and IBM gutted Redhat (Linux) and are now selling it to Enterprises for their more fancy security. Big corps will just steal your FOSS and repurpose it, bundle it up, maybe obfuscate it a little bit here and there and resell it. Just imagine the sheer volume of FOSS running meta,google,aws and all the FANGS. Licenses dont mean anything, are easy to work around and besides, you can't fight these companies, especially not prove anything major.