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Could everyone take a moment here and reflect on their hostile attitude towards an open source author who just wants to be treated fairly (in a moral sense)? M

Could everyone take a moment here and reflect on their hostile attitude towards an open source author who just wants to be treated fairly (in a moral sense)? My guess is that none of the people who are lecturing and gloating have ever written anything substantial. Shame on you.

asdasdasdas5453 6y ago
I am baffled by the comments as well.
pjmlp 6y ago
I have, but all of it was behind commercial licenses, because there is idealism and then there is the real world. As for the author, it sucks, but companies, moral and law, don't stand on the same side of the balance.
hackerfromthefu 6y ago
Yeah part of the social contract for open source is people get appreciation, respect, and visibility in exchange for their contributions ..
- deleted 6y ago
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- fourseventy 6y ago
  says who?
- whatsmyusername 6y ago
  The license does not require that.
johncena33 6y ago
The issue here is HN loves Amazon. That's why you are seeing the hostility. If it was Google doing that, I can guarantee you the HN response would be radically different.
08-15 6y ago
He used a permissive license so that everyone, including Amazon, can use his code without any strings attached. Presumably because he wants his software to spread far and wide. This is the typically stated reason why people use permissive licenses, isn't it? Therefore, shouldn't he be thanking Amazon for spreading his software?
- franklampard 6y ago
  Acknowledgment is included also. He probably expects an blogpost from AWS thanking him specifically? That’s pretty much unrealistic, given how many pieces of oss a project uses.
Chris2048 6y ago
Is describing people who disagree with you as "[never] have ever written anything substantial" a fair treatment? You're basically implying people who do not subscribe to you philosophy as lazy and/or unproductive.
franklampard 6y ago
> open source author who just wants to be treated fairly How is it not treated fairly in a moral sense? I don’t think many comments are hostile. The title is entirely clickbait, and for generating PR for the author.
zajio1am 6y ago
People do not like being publicly shamed for not adhering to some vague and not-generally-accepted obligation.
zelly 6y ago
Not hostile. Just pointing out the hypocrisy of embracing "openness" and "free software" that anyone could use freely, then getting mad when someone does use it. Also it's funny to see the FOSS crowd rediscover the need for intellectual property, having denounced it when it was applied in the opposite direction.
- lolsal 6y ago
  Thank you for saying what I could not articulate.

asdasdasdas5453 6y ago

I am baffled by the comments as well.

pjmlp 6y ago

I have, but all of it was behind commercial licenses, because there is idealism and then there is the real world. As for the author, it sucks, but companies, moral and law, don't stand on the same side of the balance.

hackerfromthefu 6y ago

Yeah part of the social contract for open source is people get appreciation, respect, and visibility in exchange for their contributions ..

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fourseventy 6y ago
says who?
whatsmyusername 6y ago
The license does not require that.

johncena33 6y ago

The issue here is HN loves Amazon. That's why you are seeing the hostility. If it was Google doing that, I can guarantee you the HN response would be radically different.

08-15 6y ago

He used a permissive license so that everyone, including Amazon, can use his code without any strings attached. Presumably because he wants his software to spread far and wide. This is the typically stated reason why people use permissive licenses, isn't it? Therefore, shouldn't he be thanking Amazon for spreading his software?

franklampard 6y ago
Acknowledgment is included also. He probably expects an blogpost from AWS thanking him specifically? That’s pretty much unrealistic, given how many pieces of oss a project uses.

Chris2048 6y ago

Is describing people who disagree with you as "[never] have ever written anything substantial" a fair treatment? You're basically implying people who do not subscribe to you philosophy as lazy and/or unproductive.

franklampard 6y ago

> open source author who just wants to be treated fairly How is it not treated fairly in a moral sense? I don’t think many comments are hostile. The title is entirely clickbait, and for generating PR for the author.

zajio1am 6y ago

People do not like being publicly shamed for not adhering to some vague and not-generally-accepted obligation.

zelly 6y ago

Not hostile. Just pointing out the hypocrisy of embracing "openness" and "free software" that anyone could use freely, then getting mad when someone does use it. Also it's funny to see the FOSS crowd rediscover the need for intellectual property, having denounced it when it was applied in the opposite direction.

lolsal 6y ago
Thank you for saying what I could not articulate.