Decentralized web technologies have the potential to make the internet more robust and efficient, supporting a new wave of innovation. However, the fundamental technologies and services that make it work are already being hit with overreaching legal threats.Exhibit A: the Interplanetary File System...
  • @MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
    3•4 months ago

    It’s weird how many companies are unable to reign in their lawyers to prevent loss of public goodwill.

    This illegal lawsuit is not a good look for JetBrains, makers of PyCharm - one of the few paid IDEs still holding it’s own against free open source options that are rapidly reaching feature parity.