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> is first and foremost about users

No, it's about the software. Free software is free in the sense that it can't be owned, like a common good. Saying you shouldn't be able to own (i.e. control access to) software is very similar to the argument that you shouldn't be able to own land. This is a political ideal.

The rationalization of that ideal is often made to be about the users but the benefits are indirect and whether they hold up in practice has not yet been reliably demonstrated as far as I'm concerned.

Arguing whether permissive or restrictive open source licenses are freer is mostly and argument about the definition of what "freedom" actually means.

GPL advocates say open source is about the freedom of the user to get access to the source code of what they are using. Advocates of permissive licenses will say open source is about the freedom of the downstream developer to bundle and distribute the software in any way they please (including in the creation of closed source products).

Saying that one or the other of these "freedoms" is not really a freedom is literally just an argument about semantics and not meaningful unless you're specifically interested in having only that conversation.

EDIT: Pragmatically IMO the freedom of the end user matters less because they need more than just access to the source code to derive any value of having that access, whereas for a downstream developer the value of being able to do as they please is extremely direct. Especially when talking about libraries which by themselves exist merely to help developers create software and frequently only use the GPL to force the hand of downstream developers when picking a license.
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Because a lightning bolt is a much more random occurance. It doesn't have agency, an agenda or a trajectory within society. A lightning bolt isn't looking to instigate more lightning bolts.

In 10 years time the death stats for lightning bolts will be similar and for road accidents will probably have declined. Which way do you think the terrorists stats will go?
Which is the perfect way of having an ideology. An ideology is about ideas. The fact that it is realistic comes second (and that's good, because most of the time we would debate on the impracticality of it until death, accomplishing nothing)
I could be inclined to use GPL if I made some end user application rather than library code. Simply because I'd prefer the project not to be forked. If someone invents a great feature for my app, I'd like that to be either merged or killed, not merged into a fork.

The problem of the GPL is that it assumes that infinite forking of software is a good thing (more choice!) when the opposite is normally true - it's better to have ONE project that isn't perfect for anyone, but that is easy to find and actively maintained, than it is to have a large number of forks each with the pet feature of different users.

For library code it's a different story. If I write a library I'd hope to get commercial use of it. I suppose you could argue that in that case you should be using the LGPL rather than BSD/MIT/CDDL/Apache, but I honesly think the LGPL is underused simply because of it sounds a bit like GPL and it makes people nervous.
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Wow, that was fast. You're pro-GPL, and it shows in how you colored your words to favor your side and denigrate the other.
> that's Blizzard's right

Sure, legally. But the question is whether we care. Ethics are relative.
> there's no longer an argument that you are attempting to fairly compete in that market. The only rational reason is to drive your competitors out of business.

Wait. "Fairly compete" and "drive your competitors out of business" are opposite things now? How?

Obviously, most businesses, ideally, want to be so successful so that their competitors go out of business - as long as the market is more or less zero-sum game, one always go in hand with the other.
Hi, we had similar concerns about privacy and have built https://cloudron.io to solve not only the hassle of setting up email but also other services where applicable selfhostable options are available.

The mail server is fully built into the platform itself and automatically takes care of all the tiny details required to get over the often stated deliverability issues (SPF, dkim, PTR, ...). So far we have found that many of the issues described here are not actually a big issue as long as everything is setup the way those large providers want it to be. The occasional report from a user about getting blacklisted usually is a matter of submitting the required form on the providers unlisting site. They do act timely as well in my experience and the process is not very time consuming.

Overall I was pretty surprised how well it works in the end, given that there are so many reports about selfhosting email is too complex to deal with.
> The GPL is a fine open source license that grants all the permissions needed by developer communities that adopt it. There is no sense in which it is not "permissive", so to use that term as an antonym to "copyleft" verges on abuse.

Sigh. This attitude makes it enormously difficult to have any kind of conversation about the tradeoffs of open source licenses, because it reveals a profound lack of perspective or willingness to admit that even your darling license isn't perfect.

Can we not just accept that there are two different attitudes towards freedom? One says that true freedom being able to do whatever you want, the other says true freedom is restricting others from infringing on your freedom (and being thus restricted in turn).

This is anarchism vs libertarianism, Jon Stewart vs Bill Maher liberalism, and non-interventionism vs neoconservatism. Do you preserve freedom even if you need to do it by causing unfreedom? It's a question that has resisted all attempts to find a simple answer despite generations of attempts.

It could be that all these people just need to read the GPL to find out that there's no sense in which being required to do something is not permissive. Or perhaps a little humility is in order, and we could make the effort the understand that different ideologies can, if not agree, at least respect each other.
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I think the issue stems from how this is reported. Too much focus on race and gender and not enough focus on the real world. These articles focus 100% on the racial politics rather than on why a VC would invest in a company in the first place.

Even saying "the typical startup, typically founded by a white male, that typically fails." ... The reality is, upwards of 80% of all companies, not just startups, fail within the first year of operation, it's not a black vs white, male vs female issue. It's simply a combination of questions about the quality of the founders, the quality of the product, the quality of their marketing, the overall environment and a hundred other factors.

"... examined over 60,000 startups and identified just 88 led by black women... " and then go on to complain about how little money was raised from VCs without mentioning that 99.95% of all startups period, regardless of who is in charge, gets no VC funding https://www.forbes.com/sites/dileeprao/2013/07/22/why-99-95-...

So to answer your question, first replace the "as a black female founder" with just "as a founder ...". Focus on your product 100%, focus on improving it, focus on your users. That is the only thing you should be focusing on. And only after you have a good product vision (or ideally an already built product, even if just an MVP), only after you're seeing promising growth or at least plenty of interest in your key demographics, can you start thinking about VCs.

If I was to invest in any company, the only things I would look at is their numbers, their vision, and their skillsets. Ultimately the race, gender, orientation or any other such things, would never come into the equation.

I am curious, anything you could share about your business? Anything we could read?

Cheers
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No. The example is entirely arbitrary. A web JavaScript developer probably doesn't need to ever know the difference between those two...
>If my project had been BSD, I might have seen someone making money from my project and associate my name with something that I had zero control on.

If he went along with his product being forced to be open, what then? It still has your name associated with it, he might still sell some copies. I'm just not getting the principles.
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Apple could buy that debt and rename the island to "Apple Island", etc.
Thew whole point of the gig economy is that drivers can work for anyone. If Uber's bubble gets burst, they'll just shift to Lyft or whichever mushrooms pop up locally. "Won't anybody think of the drivers?" has no weight.
Simply not true. Telekom gives your data on a plate to whichever agency wants to access it. To the point that an NSA watch post is 5 minutes away from the Telekom headquarters in Darmstadt.
I saw a Webpack example and it looked smaller & faster. So it seems like a good thing.
...you have to have peer reviewed primary literature...

Maybe they are just not ready for that. This whole piece comes across as a situation where Calico wants to work in peace and quiet, and the rest of the world is literally dying (sorry) to know what they are working on. I can understand their idea of wanting to be left alone: Science is a field that by its' very nature is full of naysayers and sceptics. This isn't a bad thing: this is how new science is validated. However, release your ideas too early, and you have a good chance that a whole circus develops around the impossibilities of their ideas or direction, and possibly, Government oversight and regulations before anything is actually ready for any kind of scrutiny.

The overall tone of the article strikes me as "We are curious about what Calico is doing, and we are really annoyed they won't tell us". Remember, this is being done with private money, not Government grants, and Calico doesn't owe anything to anybody.
You honestly have more power to make this happen than you think you do. Write a petition, see whether you can find any people who think it's a good idea, go to a town hall with your evidence, call a contracting company to ask how much the path would cost/how long it would take, and try to get it into the next municipal budget. You CAN do it. It's been done.
What language or tech stack has been used to implement this API?
I'm the ex-CTO of Lavaboom, a German startup that did encrypted email. Right now I'm working on Oakmail, which will be even more radically open and easy to use. I reckon it will be 2-3 months before we launch an open beta (and of course you will be able to deploy it any time once it's usable).

https://oakmail.io/
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Or within two-three generations they might lose it all, or one of them pulls a Bill Gates and leave most to charity.

Personally I think that you earned your money, paid taxes on it and your kids shouldn't be being more than half (at least on paper, before scores of lawyers and accountants devise shelters.)

Your own kids are different, now as you go down the family free... Soon enough or maybe even now, the Kennedys, can marry each other in the church and without any genetic penalty. So Joe's money could be funding both sides of the family...
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Thanks. I should clarify to that "Shock and Awe" is another name for the "Rapid Dominance" doctrine mentioned in that quote, in case anyone didn't catch that.
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Came here to say exactly that. Not only is it proportional, but if anything is a sliver above average. The argument that TC is trying to make is on par with the people who advocate for workplace diversity and go on to say about how 50% of the hires should be black - without recognising that the black population makes up only about 13.5% in US, at which point what you're doing is discriminating against everyone else just to fill arbitrary quotas not grounded in real world statistics.
In the second case it's AOT (ahead of time) not JIT (just in time) compiler.
If you care about privacy _and_ freedom, check out Kolab Now.

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I think it would make more sense to create your own token and peg it to the combined market cap of the top 100 cryptos, updated hourly.

i.e. let's say combined market cap is $40b today. Create a token called 'Coin100' and a crowdsale issuing 1 billion tokens.
It would be interesting/funny to have a list of the "tech fad of the year" in SV.
ClojureCUDA, ClojureCL (as in OpenCL) and Neanderthal are libraries developed by Dragan Djuric. Watch his talk from EuroClojure 2016 in Bratislava:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEOOYbscyTs
well, just like the OP I guess :-)

But frankly I didn't mean to make it sound better. I truly think that some people think for themselves first and for the others second. It's not a matter of selfishness, it's a matter of direction. I can think about many people who were positive for the society in both categories. And I'd even say that we tend to change our "colour" every now and then.

For example, many private companies are greedy, but it doesn't stop them to provide good things to me (it'd be better if they gave them away for free, but well, they have to make a living too). I'd say GPL is the other direction but as many mentioned, although we may like the idea, we have to recognize that the success (and therefore the value for society) is not exactly massive.

But you're right I'm rather "pro GPL, anti capital and maybe a bit of an anarchist too" :-) But well, it doesn't prevent me to work on commercial things and GPL things :-) The fact is that it's very tough to discuss political ideas without getting too involved.
> So I share your sentiment. I still open > > Photoshop/Lightroom on my Windows laptop when I need them (although lately I've been trying to use DarkTable and RawTherapee for some projects) but yes, Gimp is far from being a high end tool. Illustrator still kills Inkscape (I worked with a hardcore OSS guy who said it's just a matter of training, what you're use to and what you start with. I could tell he'd never done any real graphical editing work ever).

Could you expound on what DarkTable, GIMP, and Inkscape needs to be more comparable to the Windows/Mac alternatives? What are the crucial, missing features?

As a hobbyist photographer and video editor, who has used Lightroom and Photoshop extensively, I find that I manage fine with alternatives available on Linux.

> But who is working on it? Obviously not you. Obviously not me. It's a lot of work. I've looked at code here and there and often said "..huh..that's not has bad as I..oh no wait..yea..yea it is..I wish I had the time to work on this."

I am working on it. A lot of us are. But we need to know what to implement. We need bug reports and feature requests. DarkTable alone has almost 20 000 commits and 200 contributors. The Linux kernel has about a 1000 contributors for every release.

Does it look like we're not working on it?

And money? ... Well, yes, most HN commenters seem to be very money-centered. After all, it's a site about starting new crappy companies, pushing shitty, useless products noone needs. They don't give a shit what they partake in, as long as the paycheck is right.

But, nevermind that.

A lot of open source contributors are paid full time to do this. So you can work on open source 24/7 and get a fat paycheck, if that's your thing. The two are not mutually exclusive.

Then there are those who actually code because they like it, you know. Because it's their passion. They might endure a shitty job to make a living, but in a weekend they do 50 commits to open source projects.

Be a slave if you want, I choose not to. I work on whatever I want.
Your definition of cosmetics has something to do with culture. When people don't have to fight for survival, they start creating complex symbols and behaviours around the theme of society. They tell stories, play games. The issue here is that culture is more and more mediated by technologies that are firstly aimed at consumption.
As much as I would love to see blizzard's code, it is their intellectual property.
This is nothing similar to wikileaks. Wikileaks publishes information that should have been public because it is of public interest and relates to the public yet it is not available to the public.
Probably why there aren't much German software companies to write home about. Current software tradition is nothing but broken faucets.
I just set up a new domain on ProtonMail. I like it. No IMAP though.
>acting as an adversary to an entity with pervasive surveillance power (generally speaking, corrupt regimes around the world)

>a user-friendly rootkit installer for easy installation
>a program that trains a fleet of drones to follow a person all day, causes vehicle engine failure, etc.

I'm afraid corrupt regimes would be the ones who benefit the most from such tools.
Trying my hardest to keep an open mind, this argument is the closest I've seen to something even remotely sane, but I'm stumped in regards to the specific mechanism. I can think of two, and would love to hear if anyone can improve them:

(a) There's a house a mile away from the city. Right now, running a cable to it isn't worth it for the X$/mo they would pay for internet. Without net neutrality, Comcast will also get 20% of Amazon's revenue, and Netflix', and the investment starts to make sense. (My criticism: Those 20% will have to be added to Amazon's prices, considering their thin margins, and the customer could have just paid the total directly to Comcast, without all the harm to people not in their situation. Also: this argument rapidly loses plausibility for even a small cluster of, say, a dozen houses. If you want to life in a cabin in the woods, slow internet seems like the sort of trade-off it involves. You get clean air, in turn. Although that may be changing, as well).

(b) A simple trickle-down theory of network access: Comcast will make so much money, some of it just has to end up in network investment. (criticism: there really isn't a point at which a company will say "we have so much money, let's spend a little more on investments bound to cost us money")
You're not forced to use anything.

The problem is that many projects choose licenses without carefully assessing all the trade-offs. If someone already built the thing you need but chose to release it under the GPL it might as well not exist if you can't use GPL code in your project. This is especially true if the value added by the library is minute in comparison to the overall scope of the project (this is by design). Just ask any developer who inherited a non-GPL project from a junior developer who doesn't understand licenses and accidentally used GNU readline.

If a library naively omits the license altogether (based on a widespread misunderstanding that "no license" means "public domain"), they will usually be able to switch to an open source license easily.

If a library naively uses a permissive license, you can simply incorporate them in your project (whether that project is GPL or not).

If a library naively uses the GPL, not only are they likely locked into it until the end of time but the code might as well not have been written at all unless your project is already GPL or you are willing and able to switch your license to GPL.
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And then it diverted to a discussion about a bbq that was held in 2002:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150709120858/http://ot.to/

I think this is the place:

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3678268,-73.7132536,3a,75y,1...

:)
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On the _other_ hand, not accounting for companies in inheritance tax means that every family ever will shift all its possessions into a company.

No taxes if a company has an employee that makes at least x00% of minimum wage for every, say $500K of worth. So your parents leave you a company that has a $20mm value and you have 40 employees that average $35,000 a year, you pay no inheritance taxes. Of course you need you'd to set a reasonable timeable to discourage cheating, otherwise they'd sell /fire 50% as soon as the x year timeline expires.
Ah, my bad, I didn't know you could build Chromium for Android. That second link hasn't been updated in over a year, though.
I would just have taken his source, compiled it and provided it for free -- he had no real intentions of opening it, and in fact never released his 'code' afterward, which proved my point.

it's not the first time I see that, at my previous company, a guy took most of my in-house (closed source) middleware layers and was selling them as a 'product' as is on the interweb.
No. They're using the same gameplay code as the original Starcraft:

Q: How did you go about replicating all the unexpected “bugs” that made BW micro
so special? Did you simply reuse code from the original game, or did you find a
solution to replicate the nuances of BW’s gameplay?

A: StarCraft: Remastered is able to achieve this effect as it uses all the same
gameplay code as Brood War. This means that Dragoons and Goliaths are still a
bit derpy in how they react to movement commands. The Reaver’s shot doesn’t
always find a target. Mutas stack.

The fact is that the gameplay is identical enough that old replays from 1.16
will play and work just fine under StarCraft: Remastered.

from http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/brood-war/520464-an-intervie...
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In what way is that different for the end user compared to a closed source product with a public extension API?
> Forcing me to stay on budget

Let me picture this. You are standing at the checkout of a grocery store with a big shopping basket, and you find out that you are over budget for today ... Not sure if I would like this functionality.
Spend a bit of money on some desk plants. My desk looks like a little rainforest. All the extra green keeps you happy, you get a bit of extra oxygen, and gives you something to take care of to distract you from staring at nothing but your screen.

Beyond that I'm shocked no-one has mentioned getting either the comfiest chair you can find, or a standing desk. Either of those two will make a night and day difference.
You seem to hold the right to property higher then anything else. It might shock you but the society has the right to disown you, if your property is needed elsewhere - for example to build a interstate.

Now everyone's free to be the gremlin sitting on the sack, but if that sack literally is a masterpiece that shaped the whole of civilization, one day people will gently hoist you aside and replace the sack beneath you with a sack of similar monetary value, to put your original sack in museum.

Sorry if that's inconceivable in a black and white worldview. And no - its not communism, that is civilization. A right to destroy art does not exist.
I never said 8 hour wait to get through customs. I said multi-hour wait to get through customs. 7.5 hours from touchdown to Manhattan. That includes waiting on the plane to get off, customs, AirTrain and metro (no more shuttles running due to customs delay, a taxi queue of about 50 people). On my second flight it took about 4 hours in total.

By comparison, in the opposite direction, in Brussels it took about 1.5-2 hours to get home (about the same distance, public transportation, my companion, a US citizen, had to go through customs). The US has many great things; welcoming foreigners at their airports (at least at JFK) and public transportation are not among them.
No, it's not, and your cite teaches that it's not.

I went to the store.

My wife and I went to the store.

They loved me.

They loved my wife and me.