| The article talks about "Defenses against ensh@#$%!". There is software which evaded that fate for decades. So maybe, instead of coming up with vague self-help style life hacks, we should look into this kind of software and derive from there what makes it robust against being taken away from its users. It universally (but not exclusively) 1. is under a copyleft license 2. has no copyright assignment or CLA 3. has a large enough and diverse enough set contributors to make relicensing practically impossible This is not bullet proof but it makes ensh@#$%! and vendor lock in very hard. Of course not every software that does not fulfill each of these criteria will end badly but the points the article puts forward will not really make a difference. A good additional indicator is if the project is governed by a 501(c)(3) organization or the equivalent in other countries. A 501(c)(6) will not do. |