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| ▲ | pocksuppet 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| If someone walks up to the owner in a restaurant and offers to pay them money to buy the restaurant, it's not considered suspicious. |
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| ▲ | Ntrails 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Assuming the someone is private equity buying out, I expect the quality to drop like a stone and the place to go to hell. So. It's not suspicious. But you can rest assured as a customer it isn't good news (that doesn't make it wrong to sell ofc) |
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| ▲ | Forgeties79 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| That isn’t remotely comparable. You’re asking someone to quietly alter someone else’s product, not selling the product to them. They didn’t pay him to change the extension, they bought it. |
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| ▲ | ptx 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | They bought the permission to make changes to customer machines that had been granted to the seller by the customer. If it's just a sale of the source code, there's no problem. But what is bought is usually the pre-existing update channel (the installed base), precisely to be able to alter the product for existing users without explicitly informing them or asking for consent. | | |
| ▲ | Forgeties79 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I get what you’re trying to say but comparing selling your tool to pocketing money on the job to commit a crime is not the same thing. |
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