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[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (10 children)

“I don’t think it’s nice to federate with a company that has been cited in multiple independent reports of massacres/genocides,”

And I don't think it's nice to take the choice away from users. I can block threads all on my own -- I don't need a nanny who doesn't even cite their sources.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The purpose is to learn how to publish code that cannot be used for forking as open source.

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I have to obligate the folks to choose whether they want to pay me or help me code.

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....it was not beneficial to me.

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...new to gaining good visibility through open source,

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Your entire comment reads as a refute of OPs criticism and an excuse for Meta's actions. If you were agreeing with OPs criticism, you would typically use phrases like "only five years".

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (3 children)

And? Why take active steps to stop it from working instead of just stopping technical support? Oh yeah, to get more money.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

Strong names are great, but (sometimes) mentioning the type of variable in the name is redundant.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (5 children)

"Monday".length is working JavaScript and does equal 6. No print command afaik though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah. The maintainer said in their blog post they're looking for a license that lets people read the code but not fork it. Isn't that just standard American copyright?

Edit: Looks like they went with CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Deed (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International). So not an open source license and one that CC themselves recommends not using for software.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This blog from the maintainer makes it clear they have no interest in open source other than to advertise their own skills

Preparing for a New Beginning for Floorp

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Appreciate you giving credit where credit is due. It is 100% corporate greed.

Kotaku’s editor-in-chief has resigned

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm more concerned that the company decided it was OK to meld the "From:" line of her email (asking for support) into her profile. If they think that's an appropriate way to handle PII, I don't trust them.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I hate patent trolls, but I will say "it couldn't have happened to a nicer company". I hope they both go broke on legal fees.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I generally have to disagree on it being disrespectful. There's an inherent cost in any business relationship that has to be accounted for with low volume partners. Every company that offers volume discounting does it for this exact reason -- the price per piece doesn't change, but the other costs can be spread over more pieces.

Could Valve eat some of this cost to promote indie development? Absolutely. But it's not disrespectful to price your product with volume discounts.

 

"Should we not be buying VW, BMW, Siemens and Bayer technology and products today because they participated in holocaust and directly collaborated with Hitler?" -- CEO of Kagi when given feedback re: Brave partnership

 

Trump’s comments on the shooting that occurred about 36 hours earlier were the first he had made addressing the violence.

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