Yeah, there are reasons why "someone is going to do it anyway" is a classic example of an ethically unsound argument.

Way to undermine an interesting product launch through poorly chosen language:

> Let’s be frank the single‑player notebook has felt outdated for a while now. We’re open‑sourcing its successor. Jupyter belongs in the hall of great ideas — alongside “Hello, world.” and “View Source.”

If you're trying to reach out to the Python community this is not the way to do it. Completely unnecessary hostile language there! Have some respect.

My advice to Deepnote is to scrap this launch announcement (ideally with an apology) and try again. They've built something genuinely useful and interesting but it's going go get a lot less attention than it deserves if they introduce the open source version to the world like this.

You need to be insanely dedicated to burning rainforests and boiling oceans so that people can have AI write emails that other people will use AI to summarise and never even read the summary.

I don't know if this is a good idea, but could you enforce it at the level of corporations? Similar to how, at various times, pirating software like Photoshop was endemic for non-professional use, but Adobe mostly didn't worry about it as long as they could make sure that companies were buying licenses.

You can enforce it if you provide alternatives. The problem is they don’t want to do that part.

The article and the post title make it sound like Samsung phones come with NSO software preinstalled and a drone strike is making its way to your living room. It's adware bloat. It's a privacy nightmare. It's predatory on the part of the OEM, be it Samsung or Lenovo or Microsoft or all the other OEMs that preinstall bloatware. It happens to be Israeli (though even that's not true - Unity is an American company).

There's no need to present it as anything less than what it is, it is enough of a scandal already. Fear mongering using the words "Israeli Spyware" just undermines the very just point being made.