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What's the news here? "Retail electronic product uses open source code"? Why is this news?

dewey 6y ago
Nobody said it's news? Enough people found it interesting enough to upvote. Having your code used by a big company can be a nice recognition of your work. In this case the developer was happy about it unlike in other cases where code was used without permission. (Which I honestly expected when clicking the link!)
- jpswade 6y ago
  This website is primarily a news website. That's it's role. Sure, recognition is great on Twitter, but why did it have to leak here? What's the news here? "Developer was happy that open source code was being used"? Is this the story here?
  - dewey 6y ago
    > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Some of the most popular submissions are regularly reposted old links so it doesn't have to be news.
    - jpswade 6y ago
      I'm aware of the submission guidelines. I still don't see why this is even interesting.
      - calmingsolitude 6y ago
        Just made an account to say this: Please do not be condescending in the comments. Multiple users found it interesting, which was why it was upvoted in the first place. If you do not, simply move to the next submission :)
        jpswade 6y ago
        This doesn’t answer my question though.
  - danso 6y ago
    The interest is that an open source developer had randomly discovered his library is used (and properly cited) in one of the most popular gaming systems today. And he's sharing his delight/surprise, which implies that this is not an everyday experience for many non-curl open source developers.
    - jpswade 6y ago
      Open Source libraries get used all the time in popular gaming systems, what makes this one so interesting?
      - danso 6y ago
        It's not the library itself that is necessarily interesting, but open source culture in general. The number of comments and debates in this thread and on the original tweet seems to indicate that whatever you think is obvious about open source attitudes and expectations, may not be so obvious after all.
        jpswade 6y ago
        Whatever you think is obvious to me, isn't. Have you considered that might be why I was asking the question in the first place?

Nobody said it's news? Enough people found it interesting enough to upvote. Having your code used by a big company can be a nice recognition of your work. In this case the developer was happy about it unlike in other cases where code was used without permission. (Which I honestly expected when clicking the link!)

jpswade 6y ago
This website is primarily a news website. That's it's role. Sure, recognition is great on Twitter, but why did it have to leak here? What's the news here? "Developer was happy that open source code was being used"? Is this the story here?
- dewey 6y ago
  > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Some of the most popular submissions are regularly reposted old links so it doesn't have to be news.
  - jpswade 6y ago
    I'm aware of the submission guidelines. I still don't see why this is even interesting.
    - calmingsolitude 6y ago
      Just made an account to say this: Please do not be condescending in the comments. Multiple users found it interesting, which was why it was upvoted in the first place. If you do not, simply move to the next submission :)
      - jpswade 6y ago
        This doesn’t answer my question though.
- danso 6y ago
  The interest is that an open source developer had randomly discovered his library is used (and properly cited) in one of the most popular gaming systems today. And he's sharing his delight/surprise, which implies that this is not an everyday experience for many non-curl open source developers.
  - jpswade 6y ago
    Open Source libraries get used all the time in popular gaming systems, what makes this one so interesting?
    - danso 6y ago
      It's not the library itself that is necessarily interesting, but open source culture in general. The number of comments and debates in this thread and on the original tweet seems to indicate that whatever you think is obvious about open source attitudes and expectations, may not be so obvious after all.
      - jpswade 6y ago
        Whatever you think is obvious to me, isn't. Have you considered that might be why I was asking the question in the first place?