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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@kotaro gramted, all of tuhe #Forks that are #BSD-licensed had way more #effort put into them.

#SSPL is still worse than #AGPLv3, but #AGPL & #GPLv3 are just completely disregarding the legal reality of #IP and #Licensing.

Needless to say if I were a #developer of it and had contributed under #BSD license I'd expect to either get my code removed entirely or the license to be kept the same.

#contributorlicenseagreement#cla
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@dragonminded I guess with #Autodesk enshittifying their toolchain with more and more expensive subscriptions did force a lot if folks to actually invest time and effort and money into #KiCad.

  • And TBH, they deserve it, because there needs to be real #competition to Autodesk's stuff even if it's just for hobbyists and small-scale projects.

And yes, I still regret not having bought #Eagle when #CadSoft offered a #NonCommercial / #Hobbyist license for €125 one-time, cuz I'd still be rickin' that today.

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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"News just broke that House Republican Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, who has always disliked antitrust law, is proposing to use the budget process to roll back a key law in this area. The specific provision at issue is Section 5 of the FTC Act, which prohibits “unfair methods of competition.” On Wednesday, he’s holding a committee hearing to roll back this authority through a strange legislative maneuver. I’m doing a bit of a quick legal read, but this is a rushed process, so I want to get it out now.

I believe this change could be significant. Recently, Section 5 was used to litigate against pharmacy benefit managers. It’s in the antitrust case against Amazon, another case against Corteva/Syngenta over exclusive dealing in seeds and chemicals, and it was the authority used to ban non-compete agreements. These cases, as well as every consent decree ever reached under Section 5, are now at risk.

To understand why, we have to start by looking at this unusual law. Section 5 is unique to the Federal Trade Commission, neither the Antitrust Division nor private litigants have jurisdiction to use it. It encompasses the Sherman Act, but it can also go beyond it. It’s intended to be broad-ranging but relatively weak, to allow an expert body - aka the FTC - to reach to new business practices."

thebignewsletter.com/p/house-g

BIG by Matt Stoller · House GOP Proposes Eliminating Key Antitrust LawBy Matt Stoller
#USA#Trump#GOP
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"The most important story is that on Monday, in a D.C. district court, Judge Amit Mehta started hearings on how to restructure Google to thwart its unlawful monopoly. Two floors down, Judge James Boasberg continued the antitrust trial between the government and Meta. Never before have two trillion dollar plus companies been put on trial at the same time, in the same court house.

And yet, on Thursday, Google had its quarterly investing call where it unveiled its gargantuan earnings of $34 billion in the past three months, and discussed its future prospects with Wall Street researchers. Not a single analyst even mentioned the risk of antitrust or asked a question about it. One of them noted a stat that came out of the trial, which is user pick-up of the search firm’s AI app, Gemini, so they are clearly paying attention to the trial. They just don’t seem to think it matters. That’s true for big investors in Meta as well.

Why does antitrust seem irrelevant to Wall Street? It’s certainly not the substance of the trials."

thebignewsletter.com/p/monopol

BIG by Matt Stoller · Monopoly Round-Up: Google Generated $468 Billion Delaying Its Antitrust TrialBy Matt Stoller
#USA#Google#Meta
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Spaceflight 🚀

Launch prices for #NASA missions soared 📈 after the late 2000s, following the creation of #ULA through a merger of the #Atlas and #Delta rocket programs developed by #LockheedMartin and #Boeing. The merger eliminated 🚫 #competition for most of NASA's launch contracts until #SpaceX's #Falcon9 became available arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/

Ars Technica · Reusable rockets are here, so why is NASA paying more to launch stuff to space?By Stephen Clark
#LaunchCost#monopoly
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