Isn't exploiting the intellectual property of a non-profit for financial gain the business model for essentially every single tech company in existence?
That is, at least every tech company that has open source software somewhere in their stack - which is presumably all of them.
Touché, and you could argue that every big success story from the last couple centuries was based on exploiting some kind of freebie. (I'm thinking of the Rockefellers, Carnegies, and Vanderbilts of the world.) Although there are some OSS licenses that address this by restricting commercial uses more heavily. I dunno... if everyone goes into it with eyes open, that seems fine to me. It's when they pull the ol' bait-and-switch that makes me go hmmmm...
> every tech company that has open source software
Can you name one that piled patents on top of the open source IP?
But this isn't just an accusation of using the IP of a non-profit, it's an accusation of making a 'fake' non-profit to get things under false pretenses.
That is, at least every tech company that has open source software somewhere in their stack - which is presumably all of them.