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There is some irony in claiming that the GP comment kills curiosity. Nothing kills curiosity faster or more completely than the concealment of relevant facts.
by rmrfstar 6y ago
There is some irony in claiming that the GP comment kills curiosity.
Nothing kills curiosity faster or more completely than the concealment of relevant facts. Legal opinions in this case. See e.g. USSR.
- dang 6y agoI don't agree that the comment was primarily factual (it was ranty-rhetorical), nor that the material was relevant (most readers would regard jumping to copyright law from this article as a massive leap off-topic). Even granting all that, though—nothing about copyright is concealed on HN. It's a well-discussed topic here. In fact, #1 thread on HN the very same day as this one was largely about copyright: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23010435 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23010435 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2020-04-28 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2020-04-28 ... , and you can find endless debate about every aspect of copyright and copyright law in HN's archives. If that's the USSR, I'm Vladimir Mayakovsky.
- rmrfstar 6y agoI wasn't suggesting that HN or its moderators kill curiosity. I was suggesting that legal secrecy and related problems do. Thanks for the thoughtful response, though.