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Wherein it is pointed out that Hacker News is proprietary software.

• jcl 12y ago
  Really? https://github.com/wting/hackernews https://github.com/wting/hackernews
  • squeaky-clean 12y ago
    Where is the license file? Just because the code can be viewed does not make it legal to use or that it is "free" or "open source".
    • vonmoltke 12y ago
      https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/copyright https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/copyright
• jimktrains2 12y ago
  Hacker News is a website (so even with their code being open-sourced, I cannot verify what exactly they're running anyway), not software I'm running (JS aside). The firmware on the routers between me and the server are proprietary, and there is nothing I can do about that. I can choose not to run proprietary software without having to not use the web.
  • CHY872 12y ago
    You sure about that? Your system will be full of proprietary firmwares, drivers, etc.
    • jimktrains2 12y ago
      I avoid it as much as I possibly can. I don't know what more to tell you. I never said I'm proprietary code-free, but just that I avoid it at all costs. Hell, I've recently been forced to install proprietary code to work with government generated data. Such a mess.