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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 days agoThat sounds incredibly easy to enforce, why didn’t they?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•21 hours agoBecause people will do the work for them, so why enforce their TOS when they can just say YMMV and have absolutely zero liability if someone’s extension sells your corporate code to the dark web
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-221 hours agoYou can still have zero liability with a simple automated check. A theme is just JSON, so if it’s in the theme category, run it through a JSON parser. That would take a bad developer a day to do.
That sounds incredibly easy to enforce, why didn’t they?
Because people will do the work for them, so why enforce their TOS when they can just say YMMV and have absolutely zero liability if someone’s extension sells your corporate code to the dark web
You can still have zero liability with a simple automated check. A theme is just JSON, so if it’s in the theme category, run it through a JSON parser.
That would take a bad developer a day to do.
Because Microsoft hates you