By that same logic you could describe hitler as just a man concerned about the economy of his country.

If you have to ask?

What value do you get in transcoding your own stuff? I have plex transcoding disabled on all local network devices that stream it and run into minimal issues (codecs on TV devices, mostly).

By "my own stuff" I mean that I use my instance to upload videos I would otherwise upload to youtube - videos I made that I intend to share with people. The usual reasons for transcoding apply.

No, I think you’ll find certain legacy corporations have terrible codebases and very little incentive to fix it, because why fix what makes money and has no liability?

Agreed.

Naive people in corporations think Linux and other FOSS (Free & Open Source Software) can save them from Microsoft, Oracle, etc. woes.

But the reality is that corporates have very less incentive to migrate to open-source alternatives. Because it would mean negligible/no support, less work and hence less staffing (senior management have to justify the staffing headcount somehow).

FOSS solutions typically don't get proper (or in some cases, not even any) support from the solution makers (developer company/persons).

Corporates thrive internally on liability (they always want to blame someone, easiest target are their IT staff), and thrive externally by trying to avoid liability.

e.g., Big Pharma (Pfizer, sold hundreds of millions of COVID vaccines worldwide, after ensuring those target countries (including their own country) first gave them complete indemnity from any liability for the negative effects or lack of efficacy of the vaccines.

the hardware and software licences for some of these systems can run into the millions too

I have a legitimate need to replicate systems that are sometimes very legacy for security research (apps that sit on top, rather than the os itself). Building stuff like a base Windows XP image is easy enough, but sometimes system updates are required - even stuff like iirc tls1.2 isn’t supported in IE6

I’ll also add: games and nostalgia.

No, you relinquish the right when you agree to their TOS irrespective of if they pay you.

TOS != law

They will stop letting you use the service. That's the recourse for breaking the TOS.

I don’t want to pay for a lawyer to argue that for me. != law does not equate to ‘won’t come with a cost’.

I say this as someone threatened by a billion dollar company for this very thing.

Up until Van Buren v. United States in 2020, ToS violations were sometimes prosecuted as unauthorized access under the CFAA. I suspect there are other jurisdictions that still do the equivalent to that.

Hey articles like this could get some value with a two liner about what the tool is, tty can mean several things, so clearly stating its function would help gain additional users that aren’t already familiar with your product :)

I’m not sure how you got there unless you were ready for an argument already.