My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT
I want to make a correction about the patent bit. Maciej says:> And they assert the right to patent any clever ideas I have while doing that free work for them, even though I hate software patents:The relevant bit of the IFTTT TOS:> 12. Patent License. Licensee hereby grants IFTTT a nonexclusive, sublicensable, perpetual, fully-paid, worldwide license to fully exercise and exploit all patent rights with respect to improvements or extensions created by or for Licensee to the APIThey're not trying to patent your work, they're saying that you grant them a license to any patents you might get that relate to your IFTTT integration. In other words, a developer cannot create an integration for IFTTT, patent something in there, then turn around and sue IFTTT for patent infringement. This is pretty standard language in software licenses/contracts/terms of service.