Last time I went round with someone on this, they insisted that this is just normal business procedure to order product on credit.

To me, while trade credit is definitely a thing, for orders this large I expect there’s some more substantial backing for it.

Ultimately it probably fits in somewhere on a chart of financial shenanigans like this one:

I think it’s more like “we need 6 million chips for this year, and we’ll pay you eventually, maybe”.

But yeah the outcome is the same.

That’s complete bullshit:

Software I’ve written is owned by me.

Open-source licenses (F/LOSS) mostly cannot be revoked.

Public domain exists.