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Why not? It's a large corporation with many branches and technical needs, some of which are harmless to open-source. Despite its reputation, I don't think they

Why not? It's a large corporation with many branches and technical needs, some of which are harmless to open-source. Despite its reputation, I don't think they go through their day thinking "hmm... we could open-source this, or we could go kick a puppy instead! Muahahaha!"

jcdreads 14y ago
Why choose?
- sliverstorm 14y ago
  I believe GPLv2 has a clause against kicking puppies
  - mkopinsky 14y ago
    Douglas Crockford puts an anti-puppy-kicking clause in his OS licenses. www.json.org/license.html
    - dmoy 14y ago
      I actually looked, there is no such clause :( Well, to be specific, there is no clause that prevents you from kicking the puppy yourself just for the hell of it. There is a clause that prevents you from using 'the software' to kick a puppy, assuming 'kick a puppy' qualifies as evil. Also gullible is not written on my ceiling.
      - crumblan 14y ago
        It might be written on the bottom of your shoe, have you checked? :) Sometimes I think I'd like to release under a "you cannot use software patents in anger" license that restricts behavior outside of the software usage. But that's probably too restrictive to catch on.
    - rmc 14y ago
      That sort of licence is not "Open Source" nor "Free Software", since it does not allow Freedom 0 (the freedom to run the programme for any reason) nor OSD № 6 "No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor". (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html and http://www.opensource.org/osd.html http://www.opensource.org/osd.html) It might be nice to have a chuckle about "do no evil" in a copyright licence, but that's a massive loophole that the original author could use to stop almost anyone from using their software.
nullspace 14y ago
Not to troll here, but in all honesty I thought GS was the kind of company which would prefer to spend money kicking puppies, than open sourcing a library they wrote. ;) This will surely earn them some cred from the programming community.
- moomin 14y ago
  In the industry, they've actually got a formidable reputation for IT systems that actually work. I've worked with a few ex-GS people at various different firms, and none of them miss the hours, but all of them miss the IT.
  - reinhardt 14y ago
    Interesting. Do they miss Slang too?

jcdreads 14y ago

Why choose?

sliverstorm 14y ago
I believe GPLv2 has a clause against kicking puppies
- mkopinsky 14y ago
  Douglas Crockford puts an anti-puppy-kicking clause in his OS licenses. www.json.org/license.html
  - dmoy 14y ago
    I actually looked, there is no such clause :( Well, to be specific, there is no clause that prevents you from kicking the puppy yourself just for the hell of it. There is a clause that prevents you from using 'the software' to kick a puppy, assuming 'kick a puppy' qualifies as evil. Also gullible is not written on my ceiling.
    - crumblan 14y ago
      It might be written on the bottom of your shoe, have you checked? :) Sometimes I think I'd like to release under a "you cannot use software patents in anger" license that restricts behavior outside of the software usage. But that's probably too restrictive to catch on.
  - rmc 14y ago
    That sort of licence is not "Open Source" nor "Free Software", since it does not allow Freedom 0 (the freedom to run the programme for any reason) nor OSD № 6 "No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor". (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html and http://www.opensource.org/osd.html http://www.opensource.org/osd.html) It might be nice to have a chuckle about "do no evil" in a copyright licence, but that's a massive loophole that the original author could use to stop almost anyone from using their software.

nullspace 14y ago

Not to troll here, but in all honesty I thought GS was the kind of company which would prefer to spend money kicking puppies, than open sourcing a library they wrote. ;) This will surely earn them some cred from the programming community.

moomin 14y ago
In the industry, they've actually got a formidable reputation for IT systems that actually work. I've worked with a few ex-GS people at various different firms, and none of them miss the hours, but all of them miss the IT.
- reinhardt 14y ago
  Interesting. Do they miss Slang too?