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Hacker News: is closed source is a walled garden requires a "Y Combinator" account to communicate Most people don't use software because of the driving philoso
by bobbygoodlatte 11y ago
Hacker News:
is closed source
is a walled garden
requires a "Y Combinator" account to communicate
Most people don't use software because of the driving philosophy behind it — they use it because it solves a problem of theirs.
If a tool is the best one for the job, you should use it. And if Slack has a substantially better UI for communication, maybe developers of IRC clients should try to build a better UI rather than complain about adoption of Slack.
- e12e 11y agoIn all fairness, while the currently running incarnation of HN isn't open, earlier versions of Arc and hn/news (along with forks) is open source, eg: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/ https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/ And there are clones, like lobste.rs: https://github.com/jcs/lobsters https://github.com/jcs/lobsters Then there's the API, that allows anyone to export data. So while I get your point, and agree with it to a certain extent, it's also not entirely fair.