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by whit537 8mo ago
The openclaw/openclaw repo now has more stars than torvalds/linux, moving to #14 on EvanLi's Top 100 list with 219k: https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking/blob/master/Top100/... Co
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Spitting Out the Agentic Kool-Aid by Visiting the Amish(openpath.quest)
1 points by whit537 8mo ago|0 comments
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Sean's List of Open Source and Free Graphics Software(docs.google.com)
1 points by whit537 9mo ago|1 comments
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by whit537 9mo ago
Linked from https://openvisualfx.com/software/
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Documentary about Open Source in Ukraine and around the world [video](youtube.com)
3 points by whit537 9mo ago|1 comments
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by whit537 9mo ago
Hey all, I published a documentary yesterday called "Gift Community: A Story About Open Source." I visited the Open Source community in Los Angeles, Denmark, India ... and, yes, Ukraine. I met Poul-Henning Kamp, Mitchell Hashimoto
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You Have No Excuse for Tailwind(opensourcepledge.com)
7 points by whit537 9mo ago|0 comments
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by whit537 10mo ago
He should join the Open Source Pledge (disclaimer: I run it). The minimum is $2,000/dev so I'd say he qualifies haha
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by whit537 10mo ago
Now with a new and improved title so hopefully more people than you have the opportunity to discover it. :^) (Also how did the other URL get double-posted? I thought HN folded dupes. :shrug:)
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OSI Really Did Initiate Open Source(openpath.quest)
4 points by whit537 10mo ago|4 comments
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by whit537 2y ago
I received an email from OSI on February 14 that clearly indicates UTC. It looks like the message was sent to all OSI members. Did Luke not get this email? Details: https://openpath.quest/2025/luke-missed-the-memo/
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Leadership and Power in Open Source: Reflections on the WordPress Crisis(openpath.quest)
2 points by whit537 2y ago|0 comments
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by whit537 2y ago
Yes that's it, no minimum company size to participate. The reason to use $/dev as a metric is that it gives us some hope of comparing across companies of different sizes, though we do acknowledge different cohorts on e.g. the Memb
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by whit537 2y ago
Agreed. When it first came out in January, I did a write-up and emailed Frank for comment. It wasn't until both my critique and his paper appeared together on HN for the first time that he responded ... with a total non-answer. :rollin
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by whit537 2y ago
Oof, sorry to hear it. File a ticket if you have specific things come up: https://github.com/getsentry/self-hosted/issues/new
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by whit537 2y ago
With 10,000+ self-hosted users[0] I assume that a number of them do, but I do not have solid receipts. I'm curious as well. [0] https://openpath.chadwhitacre.com/2024/widespread-use-of-a-f...
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by whit537 2y ago
Sentry's experience suggests otherwise, as 10,000+ users from hobbyists up to FAANG companies have been using Sentry under Fair Source terms for five years now. https://openpath.chadwhitacre.com/2024/widespread-use
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by whit537 2y ago
Technically, sure. That and 10¢ will buy you a bottle of Coke like 80 years ago. B^)
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by whit537 2y ago
In addition to our 100,000 SaaS customers, we also have 10,000+ (unmonetized) self-hosted users: https://openpath.chadwhitacre.com/2024/widespread-use-of-a-f... Fair Source is working quite well for us. You should try
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by whit537 2y ago
One big reason we don't use AGPL at Sentry is that we want companies to be able to self-host individually (just not start a competing SaaS), and many have a blanket ban on AGPL.
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by whit537 2y ago
That's not the way it felt when we did it: https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/7/compensating-e... Super-experimental, though. Not ready for prime time yet. :D
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by whit537 2y ago
I referenced Dirk's original "single-vendor" paper in the FAQ, "Why should I adopt Fair Source at my company?" fair.io/faq I engaged heavily with a lot of Dirk's work in my historical deep-dive: https:&#x
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by whit537 2y ago
> do you think Sentry would have been able to get enough of a mass of users to justify getting the VC funding it did if it weren't a MITish licensed product in its early years? No. > How do you value the various libraries of user
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by whit537 2y ago
2008 - unlicensed 2009 - BSD-3 2019 - BUSL-1.1 2023 - FSL-1.0 2024 - FSL-1.1 Details: https://blog.sentry.io/sentrys-open-source-values/#our-histo... and https://blog.sentry.io/introducing-the-functiona
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by whit537 2y ago
> You're allowed to do free labor for the company Allowed? Sure. Expected to? Nope. I put it this way in the FAQ: > Developers can propose modifications back to the producer if they wish, or simply benefit from the company's
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by whit537 2y ago
[disclaimer: Sentry employee] > don't act sad when you alienate swathes of your contributors This is ill-informed, for what it's worth. Our relicensing had essentially no effect on the ratio of commits from outside the company:
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by whit537 2y ago
> I'm not sure what your visibility is inside teams, but seeing one of these "BSL" or "fair source" licenses usually terminates the product evaluation with a laugh. Eric Raymond had a similar take. I wrote this r
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by whit537 2y ago
Yes! We aim to launch https://fair.io/ next month to promote the term Fair Source for this purpose. Early feedback is guardedly positive, e.g., ESR's take was "very clever." https://openpath.chadwh
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by whit537 2y ago
You might be interested in fair.io, launching next month. We ran into a similar problem a year ago that ended up stirring up a lot of drama, so we are now promoting the term Fair Source instead of Open Source. Fair Source: https:/&#x2
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by whit537 2y ago
1) Do you have two separate codebases for free and paid? No. Sentry has one codebase between free and paid. We have a Django monolith plus some services where all our features are implemented: https://github.com/getsentry&#x

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