Australia
A place to discuss Australia and important Australian issues.
Before you post:
If you're posting anything related to:
- The Environment, post it to Aussie Environment
- Politics, post it to Australian Politics
- World News/Events, post it to World News
- A question to Australians (from outside) post it to Ask an Australian
If you're posting Australian News (not opinion or discussion pieces) post it to Australian News
Rules
This community is run under the rules of aussie.zone. In addition to those rules:
- When posting news articles use the source headline and place your commentary in a separate comment
Banner Photo
Congratulations to @[email protected] who had the most upvoted submission to our banner photo competition
Recommended and Related Communities
Be sure to check out and subscribe to our related communities on aussie.zone:
- Australian News
- World News (from an Australian Perspective)
- Australian Politics
- Aussie Environment
- Ask an Australian
- AusFinance
- Pictures
- AusLegal
- Aussie Frugal Living
- Cars (Australia)
- Coffee
- Chat
- Aussie Zone Meta
- bapcsalesaustralia
- Food Australia
- Aussie Memes
Plus other communities for sport and major cities.
https://aussie.zone/communities
Moderation
Since Kbin doesn't show Lemmy Moderators, I'll list them here. Also note that Kbin does not distinguish moderator comments.
Additionally, we have our instance admins: @[email protected] and @[email protected]
Why is this being reposted once a week? I agree it's an important petition, but this is the third time it's been posted in c/Australia alone. Given that it's also been posted in a couple of other local communities, and the website from the people behind the petitions have been posted across most game/tech related Lemmy communities recently, I don't think it needs to be reposted every week.
Edit: also, since Lemmy and c/Australia are relatively small, the last post from a week ago is only 10 posts down in c/Australia sorting by new. The first post is currently the top post of the month, and the second post is currently the ~~top~~ second top post of the (edit edit: second top)
What about cloud based SAAS?
Company out of funds. Has to pull back offerings. Closes that software.
This law would force them to somehow keep it operating.
That would be like telling the local bakery he has to keep baking pies each morning, even though he's gone broke.
SAAS isn't a one-off purchase, it's a rental with ongoing rental fees.
The intention of the wording of the petition is that it only covers "purchased" items. If a customer is given the impression that they are buying something then it should act like any other bought item. If they are given the impression they are renting something then it's out of scope, that's expected to abruptly die one day.
effectively withdrawing customers’ rights under the Australian Consumer Law to ownership and undisturbed possession of their purchased goods
^ it's a bit subtle if you're not familiar with the campaigns' language.
This means other people will misinterpret it too :(
Unfortunately yes, as I am all for the petition, as you've clarified it. I'll sign. But, it's a shame that was not made clearer.
With the amount of people employed in the SAAS world, that could scare them. With more clarity, it might have more signatures.
Thanks for the answer.
I suppose one interpretation is that companies can no longer use "buy" and will have to use "rent" for that transaction.
If there's a one time cost, it's a buy. But my business services, I pay monthly. That's a subscription.