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571.
by starbugs 7y ago
The article refers to a "free/open source business model". Even there the terms are used in a somewhat identical fashion. I really don't see how this kind of linguistic wrangling helps. Instead it kind of diverts from my
572.
by starbugs 7y ago
> My thought is not to restrict anyone from doing anything. Rather that, for example, any profit-seeking entity can use any code, but that that profit-seeking entity must pay a standard and proportional fee to the license-holder of that
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by starbugs 7y ago
> Most "software development" is internal software that exists simply to solve some organization's bespoke issues Do you have a source for this?
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by starbugs 7y ago
The statement in the article makes it sound as if providing documentation, support, etc. is a somewhat reliable way to get your work on Blender plugins and — implied — on other free and open-source software funded. I guess that's the r
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by starbugs 7y ago
How is the fact that there is old code in modern Linux distributions suddenly becoming empirical evidence on the viability of a business model? A business model does not become viable because you as the customer are somehow able to work on
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by starbugs 7y ago
There are such open source licenses: LGPL and MPL for example. These, however, come with their own set of caveats.
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by starbugs 7y ago
This is exactly what open source is not, per definition of the OSI: https://opensource.org/osd , see paragraph 6 "No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor". What you are proposing is a form of a shared source l
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Italy's Scary Parallel Currency Threat: The Mini-Bot(bloomberg.com)
1 points by starbugs 7y ago|0 comments
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A variadic, completion-based future class for C++17(github.com)
2 points by starbugs 7y ago|1 comments
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by starbugs 7y ago
Yeah, I never said that it is :) I honestly don't get the point of your comments, but I think you may not be getting the point of mine either. To clarify: the article contains advice about how to fund operations for plugin developers.
581.
by starbugs 7y ago
How is me allegedly not admiring something related to missing "the" point of the article?
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by starbugs 7y ago
Then the article should maybe add this to the list of how plugin developers are supposed to fund their operations to support Blender.
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by starbugs 7y ago
From the article: "And if you think you ‘suffer from piracy’ or find it hard to do business with Free Software? Just distinguish yourselves with the proven successful free/open source business model: provide docs, training, conten
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by starbugs 7y ago
With certain mergers I am really baffled as to how these could go through without triggering the anti-merger act. At least in retrospect, it seems as if many of those (especially DoubleClick, Admob, Whatsapp, and Instagram) should not have
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To Revive the Mac, Apple Wants to Kill Electron(onezero.medium.com)
45 points by starbugs 7y ago|105 comments
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Apple blocks video showing crowd reacting to the display stand announcement(reddit.com)
16 points by starbugs 7y ago|2 comments
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by starbugs 7y ago
Right, I guess we agree then. It's just that it doesn't work without writing that piece of software which gives it its value. But hasn't it been like that anyway all the time? Just in a slower way with more primitive distribu
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by starbugs 7y ago
That doesn't quite match the reality that I can see. A static piece of code may tend to 0 (business) value, but software that is actively being used and maintained tends to have significant value. That is probably one of the key reason
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by starbugs 7y ago
And they were most likely right in 2012.
590.
by starbugs 7y ago
Well, look at where the money has gone. It's now in the stock market and in real estate. Inflation is there, it just didn't trickle down into the CPI basket (yet).
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by starbugs 7y ago
In the current late stage of a cheap debt infused bull market it appears to be more sane to predict a crash and hence discourage people form investing in it altogether (or at least be extremely cautious) rather than speculating on where exa
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HN Daily(daemonology.net)
3 points by starbugs 7y ago|0 comments
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Donald Trump and Swine Fever Are Creating an Economic Crisis(foreignpolicy.com)
3 points by starbugs 7y ago|0 comments
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iFixit MacBook Pro 15" Touch Bar 2019 Teardown(ifixit.com)
13 points by starbugs 7y ago|4 comments
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The fundamental problems with cross-platform frameworks(medium.com)
3 points by starbugs 7y ago|1 comments
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by starbugs 7y ago
It wasn't back then. Guess why the German federal court made the original decision to stop selling under cost in 2002 [0]. Yep, Walmart. [0] https://www.handelsblatt.com/archiv/dauerhafter-verkauf-unte...
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by starbugs 7y ago
It's quite impressive how things have turned. Not long ago Walmart was about to disrupt the German supermarket landscape. They even tried to cut prices to below market cost to conquer Aldi, Lidl, and the other big discount supermarket
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Ins and Outs of Flutter Web(medium.com)
7 points by starbugs 7y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How to deal with bug bounty hunters (as a small SaaS business)?
2 points by starbugs 7y ago|0 comments
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Will Today's Global Trade Wars Lead to World War III?(reason.com)
2 points by starbugs 7y ago|0 comments

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