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by bad_user 2y ago
The claim is that, while WP is legal, it is “WordPress Engine” that was also used (in press releases or tolerated in the writings of 3rd parties), alongside “WordPress Core”, a plan which they later renamed. I don't know if this change
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by bad_user 2y ago
This has always been the case with all Open-Source products contributed by companies, due to the complexity of IP laws. Patents are the most problematic. It's why it's important, for instance, for the OSS license to also include a
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by bad_user 2y ago
Well, it is true that money wasn't the only option. And the quote is out of context. The article also gives a timetable of conversations that happened between Automattic and WP Engine well in advance; therefore, the demands shouldn&#x2
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by bad_user 2y ago
I understand from where your reply is coming from, but again, I was reading the same opinions about Java since more than 2 decades ago. > overwhelmingly driven by existing large enterprise codebases That happens with all mainstream lan
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by bad_user 2y ago
IMO, there's rarely such a thing as maintenance mode. Projects constantly evolve, and in turn this drives more investment in tooling and the ecosystem needed to keep those projects up. And this investment is what eventually drives more
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by bad_user 2y ago
Scala is very much alive and kicking. https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2024/09/12/language-rankings-6-2... The initial hype has died off and that's OK. The hype cycle is inevitable for all languages. Als
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by bad_user 2y ago
The source code is not under dispute. Trademarks or the use of WP.org do not fall under the FOSS license.
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by bad_user 2y ago
My question, related to the parent's post: why is WP.org under any obligation to provide any service to WP Engine and its users? And you're saying that they targeted one user specifically ... I say, where's the problem? To ma
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by bad_user 2y ago
WP.org isn't independent obviously because it's being funded in large part by Automattic who pays the bills. And this issue of independence is separate, don't move the discussion... Why is WP.org obligated to provide free ser
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by bad_user 2y ago
WordPress.org isn't renting anything, it's providing those services for free. The analogy with AWS doesn't work because with WP money doesn't change hands. WP Engine or their users aren't paying for the services pro
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by bad_user 2y ago
You're attributing too much to Google. Bots are now blocked because they've been abusive. When you host content on the internet, it's not fun to have bots bring your server down or inflate your bandwidth price. Google's
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by bad_user 2y ago
The whole point of Open Source was for it to not be a religion. If anything, it is the indoctrination in Free Software that led many young people to believe that proprietary software is immoral. Coupled with zero-interest rates, this led t
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by bad_user 2y ago
You're trying to come up with distinctions between Open Source and Free Software where there are practically none, except for the politics of Free Software, which is inconsequential BS.
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by bad_user 2y ago
Indeed, and the same answer was in my first reply to you, read again my first sentence. And I was pointing out my preferences, thinking we may have an interesting discussion. It appears not. Cheers mate,
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by bad_user 2y ago
I recognize there are diminishing returns, and also, while I don't want first-tier mainstream languages, at the very least I want second-tier mainstream languages :) Haskell, for example, is harder to pick, and I wouldn't pick Idr
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by bad_user 2y ago
It's a spectrum, of course. I, for one, prefer more static typing, rather than less. I prefer Scala, OCaml, F#, or Rust. And I've seen some difficult refactorings accomplished in Scala due to its expressive type system, although I
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by bad_user 2y ago
I've heard that argument before, but it never really clicked, and I'm a former fan of dynamic typing. The application domain is not relevant because you rarely know the domain up-front. Even if the domain is fully known by busines
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by bad_user 2y ago
We must live in a different world because for me, Bing's results have always been completely unusable. As a consequence, DuckDuckGo's results as well, although I understand that it must work for certain types of users located in c
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by bad_user 2y ago
You're being disingenuous. There are 2 reasons freemium shared-source-style licenses are bad mouthed: 1. The products get advertised as open source; inviting people to look at it and contribute, the problem being that they are legal mi
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by bad_user 2y ago
> "It's not good enough for a competitor to Google's search engine to be 30% better, it needs to be 10x better in order to compete." This may be so, but there is no competition that's even 10% better than Googl
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by bad_user 2y ago
I'm not from Poland, but they probably have prices similar to ours ... data plans are cheap, you have credit cards with offers for zero interest plans over 12 or 24 months, and the mobile carriers are unable to offer discounts like the
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by bad_user 2y ago
Indeed, which makes their failure even more glaring, strengthening the argument that the mobile OS market is now an impenetrable duopoly. Nokia and BlackBerry found that out as well.
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by bad_user 2y ago
I'm an "Apple user" that switched from iPhone/iPad/Apple Watch to Android alternatives; while remaining a happy user of Macbooks. The statement doesn't make sense because people don't keep 2 phones in thei
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by bad_user 2y ago
That rarely works with monopolies. Ask Microsoft, who tried developing Windows Mobile after the market was taken over by iOS and Android. Or who still tries competing with Chrome without much success, despite it being pushed on Windows as t
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by bad_user 2y ago
I'm using Brave. Vertical tabs don't nest; however, you can group them using Chromium's native groups. In Brave, I can also assign custom keyboard shortcuts, so I have Ctrl+G for starting a new group, and Ctrl+T for opening a
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by bad_user 2y ago
I would like to see a future where people shouldn't have to prostitute themselves to make ends meet. Some cultural norms are outdated, but prostitution is still degrading and dangerous for those practicing it, especially for the women;
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by bad_user 2y ago
All build tools are terrible, and among the available build tools, Sbt is OK. Let me give you an example … in Gradle, the order in which you specify plugins matters, due to the side effects. Say, if you specify something complex, like Kotli
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by bad_user 2y ago
Altruism is just a romantic notion. Speaking about its existence is like speaking about the existence of a soul. Souls may well exist, but it doesn't manifest in this universe. Everything we do is for selfish reasons and that's go
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by bad_user 2y ago
There's no such thing as “altruism”. The reasons don't matter. A good reputation, on the other hand, does matter, and I'm afraid that they've squandered it. It's difficult to regain people's trust.
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by bad_user 2y ago
I'd argue that Scala's "compromises" in general make it a better language than many others, independent of the JVM. But we can talk specifics if you want. Name some compromises.

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