TAForObvReasons

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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
> most customers, other than those on HN, are used to the subscription model and prices, and would encounter sticker shock at the high prices required to make a one time purchase work This one has basically come full circle last year. [1
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
The "moral high ground" is a recognition of the true dynamic in open source. What really happens is: 1) Project is open source 2) People use the project because it is open source 3) People contribute bug reports and fixes, creat
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
The example is flawed. What really happens in open source is that the users contribute bug reports and fixes, then the project maintainers privatize the use after extracting value. Should the users who contributed code and issues be paid
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
For-profit package managers like NPM touted download and package counts as if they were KPI. Deep dependency trees is the natural result.
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
It's funny to see how HN flipped on this subject. My company was stung by Handsontable switching to a proprietary license https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19488642 and the top comment back in 2019 was "Great
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
You spent well over 100k and recovered 50k. If you were also compensated for your legal expenses in the process, then sure "don't be intimidated" is a calculated risk. If you didn't, then it seems like you are a loser ei
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Stars at some point served as "social proof" of something (eyeballs, users, interest), but Goodhart's law struck. At least three investor groups are explicitly looking at lists of the most starred / forked projects and t
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
The social network aspect was a means to an end ("get enterprise customers"), but the needs of enterprise customers differ from the needs of open source communities. Hence the "indecision"
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
This is very simple to understand: in the long run, price tends to marginal cost of production. Open source represents the logical endpoint: since marginal cost of software is ~0, the endpoint is something with price ~0. SaaS is a respons
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Yes. https://github.com/githubocto > We moved to https://github.com/githubnext ! https://github.com/githubocto/flat still using old name
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31190064 explains it well: > The GPL is a copyright license. It applies when copyright law would otherwise prevent distributing some program. If I were to violate the GPL, for example
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
OSI muddies the waters by accepting AGPL as an open source license. As argued many times, it is really a EULA, not a proper license in the sense that GPL or BSD or MIT are software licenses.
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
A specialty business like PlanBags doesn't survive 50 years without building deep decades-long relationships with some customers. It's easy to forget that in tech when the biggest players shut down services with no lead time.
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
If you squint hard enough, ModPlug Tracker / OpenMPT kinda sorta looks like a spreadsheet https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/OpenMPT-... . It runs the timeline top to bottom
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
If you have good relations with your parents, you can grind away in their basement. For obvious reasons, many people cannot or do not want to take that approach
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
"Job security" Without being too reductive, software is subject to the theory of economic profit and thus tends to ~free. Churn is the natural response. It artificially create the sort of work that forces users to spend money in
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/overview-of-sprea... Spreadsheet Compare, an official diff tool, is excellent
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Looked into this years ago in a semi-related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21874358 https://www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-members-news/irs-budg... > IRS Research Division estimat
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Because it was near max capacity in 2020? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/US_Strat...
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
(4) is extremely important. Labor pool is smaller and there won't be a wealth of soft documentation and people that can provide immediate support for common questions.
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
You can switch on arbitrary types in JS and you can add expressions: switch(3) { case true: break; case "ab" + "c": break; case Math.random() >= 0.5 ? "heads" : new Error("tails
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
While micro-optimizations are interesting, there are two questions left unanswered: - Does this change noticeably affect the total runtime? The checksum seems simple enough that the slight difference here wouldn't show up in PNG bench
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Specialized software is a market for lemons. Most businesses running off Excel spreadsheets are ill-equipped to judge the vendors in question, and more often than not the net result is worse than the Excel mess.
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
That is not relevant to the general point. The article punchline is > It uses manipulative user experience (UX) design to keep users glued to it. It is built to trigger compulsive use, especially in more impressionable audiences such as
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Many have argued the AGPL is a EULA, not a proper software license. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31190064 for example: > If I were to run a modified AGPL'd SSH server on my own hardware, the question of whe
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
"Open source doesn't mean it's free" is typically used to refer to implementation and support costs compared to commercial solutions, not to licensing shenanigans within self-styled open source projects.
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
As long as there is money to be made by blurring the line, people will continue to do it. But there is no consensus on what is "open source". Is AGPL open source? Despite the FSF and OSI approving AGPL, many would argue that it
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
You're being downvoted but this is especially true of open source projects. Raising money ties the future of the project to the future of the commercial endeavor and misaligns development incentives.
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
You charge money and it becomes your livelihood. No obvious pricing page, but uBlock Origin detects Stripe scripts
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
The real draw is the camera. The ease of taking videos, especially of your kids, is worth the price tag for many. And the camera is a differentiating factor between the lower and higher tier models. Is the state-of-the-art camera needed?

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