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This kind of ages old flame war is discouraged on Hacker News. From the guidelines: "Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something
by SwellJoe 13y ago
This kind of ages old flame war is discouraged on Hacker News. From the guidelines: "Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them. "
The BSD vs. GPL, which is more "free" or "permissive", argument has been going on for decades and is not going to be settled in this thread.
- sovande 13y agoYour trying to pour oil on untroubled waters. Discussing the rationale and pro/con for selecting a specific Open Source License for a particular project _is_ generally interesting.
- SwellJoe 13y agoI'm trying to encourage people to respect the guidelines of the site. And, I happen to strongly agree with said guidelines. Can you not see that no one is changing anybody's minds here, and everyone who is chiming in has a fiercely held position? This is one of the classic hacker flame wars, and flame wars are a waste of everybody's time. In short: Arguing about GPL vs BSD is a shitty thing to waste this great community on, and I felt like it was worth risking the ire of all the people who love flame wars in order to say so. The guidelines exist for a reason (and this thread is more evidence that this particular guideline is useful and relevant; if pg didn't have this particular argument in mind when he wrote it, I'd be moderately surprised).