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> This is commercial only. Free and small is my safeclib Is it me or does this feel a bit weird? It seems like you're using the comments section here to self-a
by fao_ 2y ago
> This is commercial only. Free and small is my safeclib
Is it me or does this feel a bit weird? It seems like you're using the comments section here to self-advertise for exposure.
I read it like — "businesses can't use this without paying the OP, however, if you're a business you can get 50% of the way there by using _my_ library, and you don't even have to pay me!". It comes off incredibly rude to try to undercut the OP like this.
- josephcsible 2y agoIn general I'd agree with that, but IMO the benefit of having a FOSS alternative to a proprietary product overrides it in this case.
- fao_ 2y agoSee this is where I and the FSF/OSI diverge, because > the right to use, copy, modify, merge, publish and distribute the Software [as long as you're not selling it or derivatives of the Software] seems to line up with exactly what the folks involved in Free Software originally wanted — the ability to fix, patch, debug software that runs on their systems. I also think it's incredibly important to have non-commercial clauses given that the vast majority of technical infrastructure in the modern world is built on FOSS, all while the companies give nothing back and developers of FOSS starve. If Valve can dump hundreds of developers into FOSS and within, what, 7 years? bring Linux almost to parity with and performance of Windows for gaming, imagine what would happen if FOSS developers were actually given funding!
- ykonstant 2y agoSelf promotion in comments is perfectly fine on HN, as long as the comment is on topic and informative---both of which are true here.