If a stranger walks up to the chef in a restaurant and offers to pay them to put some mystery stuff in the food, or someone walks up in during a surgery and asks if they can make some incisions and inject some mystery stuff, would you (as a customer of the restaurant or hospital) expect this to be allowed?

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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.

	▲	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.