Hyacinth github extraction dream snippet
Dec. 21st, 2025 06:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ionelvI got caught just as I was about to dig up a hyacinth from someone's front lot with my garden trowel. I tried explaining that I just wanted to fork their github repo to which the owner explained that their repo is not open source and the two paid versions are between $100 and $200, the first for academic use only (their case) and the second for NATO use, neither of which permitted forking. I told him that only wanted to reverse engineer the undisclosed socket API and that I was about to destroy the original after learning that. [At this point I woke at the usual time I feed the dog in the morning.]
Context: I have thought about stealing a couple of snow drops from people's front yards, especially those that are obviously wild and unmaintained as they grow randomly on that thin patch of grass between the sidewalk and the curb/kerb. The unopened source code must be some faint memories of semi-secret protected Microsoft early APIs and corporate code bases as well as the draconian and non-common sensical approach to copyright and IP in North America and the West that led to such cases as the Pirate Bay trial, US v Swartz, the Mickey Mouse Protection Act and (drug) patent ever-greening. It is somewhat karmic that China's swift rise in the past few decades allegedly owes a lot to completely ignoring and breaking all of these silly rent-seeking greedy IP-protection rules.
Context: I have thought about stealing a couple of snow drops from people's front yards, especially those that are obviously wild and unmaintained as they grow randomly on that thin patch of grass between the sidewalk and the curb/kerb. The unopened source code must be some faint memories of semi-secret protected Microsoft early APIs and corporate code bases as well as the draconian and non-common sensical approach to copyright and IP in North America and the West that led to such cases as the Pirate Bay trial, US v Swartz, the Mickey Mouse Protection Act and (drug) patent ever-greening. It is somewhat karmic that China's swift rise in the past few decades allegedly owes a lot to completely ignoring and breaking all of these silly rent-seeking greedy IP-protection rules.
