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Ask HN: How can we curb piracy with WebAssembly?
- not_your_vase 3y agoWhat kind of piracy? Like torrenting? Or the eye-patch/peg-legged/aarrrrgh-saying version? Either case, why would you do that? Also, why would you do with WebAssembly instead of JQuery, or Rust?
- beardyw 3y ago> Also, why would you do with WebAssembly instead of JQuery, or Rust? What? WebAssembly is a runtime environment, JQuery is a library, and Rust is a language.
- not_your_vase 3y agoAnd red is a color, love is a feeling, and a chair is a piece of furniture. What's your point?
- beardyw 3y agoThis: Also, why would you do with red instead of love, or chair?
- nektro 3y agodon't bother trying to curb it, all you'll get is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
- rapnie 3y agoIn a WASI world.. allowing to give that formerly-FOSS-component-suddenly-turned-propietary-commercial the boot and replace with another FOSS component. Compete on quality-of-service, not by vendor lock-in. No need for piracy.
- dangitnotagain 3y agoIt’s more likely to encourage the war against open source. Come on, tell me you haven’t noticed there’s a secret war brewing to supplant open source. The day shall come when we may no longer “view source”, where open source licenses and their code repositories are no longer prominent. There will be business news articles about how lucky you are, the safety of your children and the well being of your communities, all due to responsible companies “making sure” their source codes are safe and well looked after by professionals. You think it’s too big to fail (OSS), yet it is common to miscalculate the consequences of over leveraging public perception, let alone their sentiments for security where appetites are concerned. In a world where sources are no longer free, we will all be made “pirates”, you will see.