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I can't help but feel that "Netflix for X" is an incredibly trite and poorly chosen phrase. Nobody is the Netflix of Open Source... maybe Netflix is? A subscri
by cheeze 8y ago
I can't help but feel that "Netflix for X" is an incredibly trite and poorly chosen phrase. Nobody is the Netflix of Open Source... maybe Netflix is?
A subscription model doesn't make one "the Netflix of $industry". A p2p 'sharing' model doesn't make "the Uber of $industry" either.
/rant
- rhplus 8y agoPerhaps "ASCAP for Open Source" might be a closer analogy? https://www.ascap.com/music-users/licensefinder https://www.ascap.com/music-users/licensefinder
- greglindahl 8y agoExcept ASCAP sues people, and also mislays most of the money that flows through them. One hopes Tidelift does neither.
- stingraycharles 8y agoI agree with you, it took me a while to understand this was not about videos at all. Nor about Netflix-like opensource efforts.
- cheeze 8y agoAt least "Uber for X" is obvious. But Netflix is just a subscription service... The {Amazon Prime, Netflix, New York Times, Adobe Cloud, Cable Television, Electricity, MoviePass, Leggings of the Month Club} of X!
- kashyapc 8y agoIt's the result of people writing "articles" in a hurry, and going with the nearest and stupidest cliché that occurs to them.
- dang 8y agoIt's inevitably going to distract the discussion, so we've taken Netflix out of the title above.
- cheeze 8y agoYou and the mod team rock
- 873rnyester 8y agohttps://clip2art.com/images/boulders-clipart-big-rock-14.png https://clip2art.com/images/boulders-clipart-big-rock-14.png
- foobarbecue 8y agoNot the first time, or the latest, either: https://hn.algolia.com/?query="netflix%20for" https://hn.algolia.com/?query="netflix%20for"