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Old 02-25-2019, 11:58 PM  
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Originally Posted by myleene View Post
Project looks good, but there are 3 odd things about it:

1) They got a DMCA violation warning by the CEO of the paid software they cloned:
https://github.com/freescout-helpdes...out/issues/162
If I listed the number of companies that have DMCA'd open source projects because the feel hurt that their idea has been made free then I would run out of room in this post. Companies profiting from SAAS services are regular offenders when it comes to misusing copyright law to protect their 'ideas' - if they had a patent that would be different but they didn't.

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2) They didn't want to disclose who is behind it:
https://github.com/freescout-helpdes...out/issues/161
Many developers of tools you use every day have pseudonyms, nothing odd about that.

I contribute to some GNU projects under a different GitHub account because I don't want people trying to bug me for support or help.

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3) Their main domain is whois protected:
https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=freescout.net
This is also common.
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