From: nunojsilva@invalid.invalid

On 2025-12-19, candycanearter07 wrote:

> Lawrence D’Oliveiro  wrote at 01:41 this Wednesday (GMT):
>> On 13 Dec 2025 14:08:25 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
>>
>>> Le 13-12-2025, bonkmaykr  a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> This isn't an uncommon thing for FOSS developers once they're depended
>>>> on, despite the clear disclaimers that they provide zero warranty.
>>>
>>> That disclaimer isn't limited to FOSS. Last time I checked Microsoft
>>> licence, I saw the same guaranty. But if big companies know they can't
>>> sue Microsoft, they believe that guaranty is only there to protect big
>>> companies, not FOSS developers.
>>
>> There is this irony in an excuse often put forward by BigCorps™, as to why
>> they prefer to pay lots of money to proprietary companies like Microsoft,
>> instead of using Free software and managing their own support thereof: the
>> “one throat to choke” excuse. That is, they claim that, in the event of
>> problems with the software, they can go back to the owning vendor to get
>> it sorted out, there should be no pointing of fingers at others.
>>
>> Except it doesn’t work in practice, does it? When was the last time a
>> company or Microsoft (or Oracle, or whoever) was successfully sued over
>> the (lack of) quality of its software?
>
>
> It also ends up affecting everyone when something goes wrong, which is
> super annoying cough cloudflare

Cloudflare is on a different level (or perhaps not... halloween
documents and the ACPI e-mail) - they possibly market a service without
making it very clear it's basically whitelisting only a few browsers,
besides requiring JS on these browsers. Especially given that, in the
past, their browser checks supported more browsers and had more
fallbacks, but now it's all on top of "Turnstile" and that caters only
for specific browsers, and some of their customers might have just
continued without enough notice of these differences? Or did Cloudflare
really say it out loud that the new version would only allow using
select browsers?

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Nuno Silva

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