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The title is clickbait. The real message is to avoid raising money if you are in a desperate spot. The deals may not be favorable and you need to be able to say no, and you can't say no if you feel desperation.
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Similar story behind JPMorgan Chase: https://www.jpmorganchase.com/corporate/About-JPMC/document/... The Bank of The Manhattan Co. had an unusual beginning. Burr led a group of New Yorkers, incl
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At least the top reply at the time, by @mapgrep, addressed the concern: > Come now, Paul. Yes, Yuri is smart. But he also has huge sacks of money to throw around, most of which comes from oligarch Alisher Usmanov > It's kind of s
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There really is no good way to monetize the existing open source product outside of support contracts. Developers will know that building from source is an option. The approach that nginx and other projects use involves an open source core
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Allegedly it is legally binding! Scroll down to the bottom of the page, expand "OSP General" and you'll see a question "Is this OSP legally binding on Microsoft and will it be available in the future to me and to others
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Microsoft tries to do that with the Open Specifications Promise, a covenant not to sue: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecifications/dn646765
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http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-... goes into more detail, but the summary is: > Apple's Terms of Service impose restrictive limits on use and distribution for any software dist
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> What if Facebook actually breaches your patents? This is the crux of the problem. I've heard others try to explain this by arguing that "If FB decides to breach your patent, you're SOL anyway. They can out-lawyer you&q
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There was a time when React was Apache v2! https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/3bbed150ab58a07b0c4fa... shows that license. Has anyone seriously explored forking React from the last Apache v2 version?
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or this.setState({ isConnected: !!weAreConnected })
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https://weex.apache.org/ is the closest thing for the Vue ecosystem
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We stopped after our second support contract. Long story short: quite a few companies wanted additional features and we ultimately had to pick one thing to pursue.
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The comment wasn't intended to be diminutive. There happen to be many shameless people looking to make a quick buck, but few of those people would pay if you didn't open source in the first place (or if you offered them a chance
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We usually start with a simple email or phone call. Most developers and teams will reply quickly, especially when they are in the business of selling software.
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We build open source tools for processing spreadsheet data ( https://github.com/sheetjs/js-xlsx is our largest and most popular open source project). Our open source tools have been used by government agencies, S&P
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> I don't readily have a source at my fingertips, but I bet someone on HN can come up with a link. That was us :) @patio11 was blown away by our in-browser Excel file preview: https://twitter.com/patio11/statu
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BountySource ( https://www.bountysource.com/ ) tries to monetize bug fixes and light work. This is probably closer to the Bugzilla side of the proposed solution. IMHO the core problem, dependencies, is not addressed in the s
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The "tech shortage" is a real myth. The ultimate problem is that people want "unicorns for peanuts" and no one (including Shelly Palmer) wants to take the risk of hiring and developing potential talent. If all you can
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It's all relative. Sometimes solutions require insights. Other times solutions involve a ton of grinding. Many people have a tendency to overemphasize the first and greatly underemphasize the second, even though the grinding may act
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I wish TS would consider the annotation-in-comments form from flow: https://flow.org/blog/2015/02/20/Flow-Comments/ For switching a large existing JS codebase, it's easy to add flow comments wi
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> Reverse engineering is a very broad term, but generally involves analysis of decompiled source, no? Not necessarily. If you are reverse-engineering a file format for the purposes of reading and writing files compatible with the softwa
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> There are whole companies dedicated to this concept of piggy-backing junk. ... including a YC company called InstallMonetizer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711
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Go to google news and search for the headline.
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> what motivates you to create an account for the purpose of commenting on this story. airbnb is a YC company, HN is a YC site, so it's easy to imagine that comments critical of airbnb wouldn't be taken kindly.
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One point not mentioned in the article: Sales Tax. Clothing is fully tax exempt in New Jersey. Bergen County is in very close proximity to NYC and plenty of people make the drive over to NJ (or take one of the buses from Port Authority Bus
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientists_opposing_th...
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> While Microsoft Office for mobile is a satisfying success ... Are there numbers supporting this claim? A cursory search revealed no publicly released usage statistics
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The book has a nice discussion: http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Configurat... > The default setting is auto, which colors output when it’s going straight to a terminal, but omits the colo
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> Full Etherpad Pad Export and Import Is there a way on the beta site to start from a file? For example, with ethercalc, you can drop an XLSX or CSV file and it creates an instance from that document ( https://ethercalc.org&
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The source is available at https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite

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