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Considering the grey market is filled with dodgy keys, it’d be better to just pirate, especially when there are easy and safe ways to do it like with MAS
Considering the grey market is filled with dodgy keys, it’d be better to just pirate, especially when there are easy and safe ways to do it like with MAS
If you must have MS office, then I’d go with MAS/Massgrave like others have said.
It’s well documented, requires minimal setup (if going default route), and is much less risky than going into the grey market for keys or downloading cracks elsewhere.
I’d love to chance to play a bunch of nostalgic titles - just off the top of my head I’d play DOOM, Uplink, Darwinia, Morrowind, and my trashy favourite from that era Themepark world. There are definitely more if I had time to think about it.
Was about to say, seems like an example of a malicious advert than what they’re actually trying to look for
Going after the copyright holder for infringing on your work, which by merely existing commercially infringes on their copyright, is one hell of a way to get sued out the arse…
Having said that, it is a crime that LOTR still hasn’t entered the public domain yet.
If you read into the blog post this links to, you’ll find that is only the opening argument, not the whole argument as you say.
My first paragraph reacts to that… and to be honest, I’m still going to say isn’t that controversial.
When most people think of Open Source, they’re not thinking about the OSL, they’re thinking colloquially (as in the source being open to the public). I suspect he was using that wording colloquially as well - whether that was a slip up or intentional, I don’t know, but considering he goes out of his way to let us know about the way Grayjay’s licensing works, I don’t think he’s trying to hide anything by it.
The rest of what I said afterwards was my first reaction towards the rest of the blog, and I stand by it.
One can certainly argue it’s not “open source” so much as “source available”, but I don’t think it’s that controversial.
They’re providing a product, and obviously don’t want other people slapping their name on it and selling what they worked hard to make. Their license makes it easier for them to enforce that.
They also obviously don’t want people creating malicious forks of their program, like what keeps happening with NewPipe. So their license also makes it easier for them to enforce that.
If you want to encourage more companies to make their source code available, then maybe we shouldn’t shit on those that are.
Plus, per Rossman’s own words, you don’t even have to buy Grayjay for it to work, it’ll just ask you, ala Winrar. Give them a break.
Great to hear!
Fair enough, makes sense with Lemmy being the most active in this part of the Fediverse
Ah, it does have one, though it is in beta (last I heard). If I’m remember correctly, there is an app called Artemis using it already
Infinity was my favourite Reddit App, so seeing it ported over to the Fediverse is great!
Apologies if this has already been asked, but do you have any intention of making it compatible with Kbin?
Good resellers do, but I think my point still stands - why risk any of that when Microsoft doesn’t get your money either way?
MAS/Massgrave works effectively, is open source, is well-documented, and literally free.