this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2024
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I'm pretty sure nobody here knows who you are. Say the name, and some of us will just make this company's life a living he'll by spamming them to give us the source. Win - win (except for that POS company)and you remain anonymous. What are they going to do, sue your Lemmy handle?
That's flawed logic. The company would pretty easily know who has been emailing to request the source code for that specific tool in the timeline just before this post. The lemmy profile may be anonymous, but I doubt OP's emails were.
Why would anyone mention anyone was emailing them? I'm talking about just doing the same without any type of other info.
Well the context was a concern about a defamation suit resulting from this post. If the company never found this post then the anonymity of the poster is irrelevant anyway. The company could easily tell who made this post based on the timing of their already existing email correspondance seeing as this is clearly not a request they receive often.
Oh, I didn't think about it, but you're right. That does make sense.