Did Azure Notebooks have anything proprietary beyond Jupyter notebooks? If not, not a huge deal - can still take away all of your content and rerun elsewhere :)
How do you enforce GPL in China? Is it enforceable at all?
> GPL violations are rampant, of course. Both ship Linux with no license text (even though UHE265-1-Mini comes with a paper manual) and no source in sight. Both ship FFmpeg, although URayTech has configured it in LGPL mode, unlike LinkPi, which has a full-on GPL build and links to it from various proprietary libraries. (URayTech ships busybox; I don't think LinkPi does, but I could be mistaken.) LinkPi's FFmpeg build also includes FDK-AAC, which is GPL-incompatible, so the entire shebang is non-redistributable. So both are bad, but the ENC1 is definitely worse. I've sent a request to support for source code, but I have zero belief that I'll receive any.
It's hard to enforce any kind of IP protection in China. Some years ago I worked for a company that outsourced some PCB layout and manufacturing to a reputed company in China. A few months into production we were made aware of similar devices with identical error codes and messages being sold locally. We had no luck prosecuting it.
Their IP system is strange in that you can file a patent in China even if there is prior art and is being used elsewhere in the world. This means you see interesting incidents - a patent we filed some years ago with apparently little to zero commercial value suddenly popped up in China, filed by some company from Shenzhen. It was apparently a word for word copy of what we had filed, and the diagrams were identical too.
Though there are tall claims about how IP protection has "improved" in China, they have a long way to go and a lot of broken trust to rebuild.
Long-time python programmer: we could do a better job with bootstrapping projects. `create-react-app` and `create-probot-app` set up complete projects for ya. How great would it be to have a project skeleton with black + poetry + mypy with everything hooked together?
I'm pretty taken with this project (especially if you can define APIs in some way such that they can auto-complete with integration into CloudWright). How can I get in touch to chat more?
