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Story: Microsoft, Linux Foundation unite against proposal
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I agree with the Linux Foundation's stance as things currently stand. However, if the law was that the purchaser of a packaged software product had legal recourse against the organisation publishing the software, that might at least go some way to redressing the balance between between paid for a free software. As it stands you have the same rights buying the software as you do downloading free software, in fact, some would argue less. So what is the consumer buying?
If some of these arrogant corporates who sell sub standard products and then just shrug when people complain had to back their marketing gloss up, maybe they would try a little harder to release decent stuff.
Also, this way, the developers would not be affected and open source would be completely immune, except, again, where the software is sold as package and then the onus is on the organisation selling the software to properly test the variant they are releasing.
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