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To a lot of people (if not the majority outside hacker-news), yes.
by gcau 3y ago
To a lot of people (if not the majority outside hacker-news), yes.
- mort96 3y agoWhy is the opinion of people unfamiliar with the field of programming (i.e the majority outside hacker news) interesting?
- gcau 3y agoYou're implying the majority of programmers are HN users, not true ofcourse. HN is just a different, possibly older breed compared to the average programmer. I would say it's not even debatable that the majority of programmers would still consider this open source (since the source is still open), and haven't heard of the term source available. The more accurate statement is, its no longer free (as in freedom).
- mort96 3y agoIncorrect. I'm implying that the majority of HN users are programmers. The majority of people on HN are programmers, the majority of people not on HN are not programmers, the majority of programmers are not on HN. I can't speak on what the majority of programmers think. Isn't the opinion of people in the open source community the interesting one?
- gcau 3y agoPerhaps you thought I meant the majority of all people, I meant the majority of all programmers outside HN (hold a different definition of open source than the more extreme one used here). Not that it matters - but I would say non-programmers have an even higher percentage of people with a different definition. I mean sure, the more upset reactions from the more invested parties are the more interesting ones. I just take issue with people fighting to use a more-incorrect, less-used definition which serves no purpose other than to try make entities like Redis look bad.