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> Also note that Microsoft will still be able to charge money for the open source code because there's no reason that you can’t other than piracy concerns, and due to the increased legal scrutiny corporations tend not to pirate products, unlike the general public.

Yes, Microsoft will still be able to charge money for the open source code, but if the code is open source, other people will be able to distribute it free of charge or for a fee, that is not at all illegal or piracy! Open source has always meant this. Let me quote from the Open Source Definition, by the Open Source Initiative, the only authority on what constitutes open source:

> 1. Free Redistribution

> The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.

All of the open source licenses listed on osi.org allow users to redistribute the software free of charge.

That's not true. Plain text is usually hard wrapped with newlines, which leads to awful experiences on small screens.

The power to sue isn't the only form of authority worth considering. Many projects and groups consider OSI authoritative in what constitutes open source, including Debian, Ubuntu, Mozilla, the Apache foundation, the Creative Commons non-profit, RedHat, Google (at least when they hosted Google Code), and others. Personally, I'm glad that the OSI occupies this role, otherwise, the term "open source" would inevitably be diluted to mean gratis or even worse.

jslint famously had such a clause and caused problems for lots of FLOSS distros like Debian. Please don't include such a clause, it only punishes careful people.

If you do find or use such a license, it's definitely not open source. According to the OSI, the only authority on what constitutes open source, open source license must not discriminate against fields of endeavour:

> 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

> The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

See the open source definition: https://opensource.org/osd

I would encourage you to use a normal open source license, like MIT, and to not worry about trying to control who uses the software for what.

Is there a way to read this article without logging in?

DRM makes it hard for me to make backup copies of media that I've bought and own, so you can see how DRM goes against your stated belief. That's just one for starters. The article itself goes into a few more reasons.

I agree. If I wanted r/technology, I'd go to r/technology. Please, fellow users of HN, downvote jokes.

This is not correct. SSL only blanks referrals to non-HTTPS links, the referrer is passed by default to all HTTPS links.

Since HN is using HTTPS, this should be very easy to test by just clicking on this link: https://www.whatismyreferer.com/

Note that HN includes this line of HTML which affects the sent Referrer header:

    <meta name="referrer" content="origin">

CC0 is not a great license for code weirdly enough. OSI never approved it as an open source license because of a clause about patents. https://opensource.org/faq#cc-zero

This broke the back button.

From the Hacker News Guidelines:

> Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.

I've never heard that Edge sends absolutely all POST requests to any website to Microsoft as well. Could you share an article or something proving this?

Do you have to set it up manually? How is this better than downloading one of the privacy-protecting extensions available for most desktop browsers?

What about contactless cards? I personally find contactless cards, common in the UK, much more convenient than having to faff about with my phone, which may be out of battery.

What if the reason is that Facebook started a patent war with them? Is it fair that Facebook disables all of their opponents' patents, whether they are related to React or not? In my mind, that's not fair. If they promised to disable all of their patents, then that would be fair, but it's very one-sided.

I would edit that to say "as long as you stick with UTF-8 for everything." Unicode defines more than one encoding, not just UTF-8, but also UTF-16 and UTF-32.

You do not need email confirmation in your sign up flow... but you will email confirmation eventually, as the article says.

However, you may never need a password. Users can log in on other devices using another email confirmation link, or using log in with Google, GitHub, etc.

There's three things wrong with this:

- you're failing to heed the warning that demonising your opponents makes them further entrenched in their position. If you're trying to save our planet by persuading climate change skeptics, you should stop doing that.

- You're equating the plausability of the lizard conspiracy to the plausability of climate change being man-made. Don't, because they're not equally implausible, and it's counterproductive.

- Your argument that climate change skeptics are destroying the planet is only true if climate change is indeed man-made, and therefore has no relevance to the determination of climate change's existence and causes.

No, LGBTI+people are not killed everyday in America for being an "abomination to God". It's a lot lower than that.

Women do get medical support, maybe not enough, it's not true that all women are denied medical support.

Yes, America is not a utopia, but it's not as bad as you paint it.

It already exists. Ctrl-alt-right on the numpad I think.

I actually prefer Ubuntu's way of doing it. The notifications never get in the way (since if you hover over them they became transparent and clicking on them actually clicks underneath them). Whereas on macOS the notifications stay for ages and get in the way.

Yes! I am using macOS at work, and I was surprised to discover that I like Homebrew much more than Ubuntu's APT, because of how up-to-date Homebrew's packages are.

Where are you getting that quote?

Slightly off topic, but I was recently looking for a tool like mytop but for Postgresql. Does any one know if it exists?

A capital B indicates "byte", and a lower-case b indicates "bit". 240 MBps is eight times faster than 240 Mbps.

When it comes to speeds in bits per second, M almost always means 1000000, and not 1048576.

The UK is part of the continent of Europe. It's also still a member of the EU for the time being.

Heroku's official Python template include `.env` in the repo: https://github.com/heroku/python-getting-started https://github.com/heroku/heroku-django-template (Although, to be fair, they do include `.env` in the `.gitignore` file.)

> Default Contributor License: To address growing confusion over licensing and contributions to others’ projects, we added a simple default contributor license. If it does not suit your needs, you may add your own Contributor License Agreement to your repository.

That is much needed. Does anyone know what the new default contributor license is?

If we're going to sink our time into the old copyleft vs permissive licenses debate, I wish we would be more precise with our words.

AGPL is an open source license, according to OSI, the only authority on what constitutes open source. https://opensource.org/licenses/AGPL-3.0

You say "open for everybody to use". Both open source licenses and free/libre licences guarantee that the software is open for use. You're actually talking about freedom to combine with closed source/proprietary software, not about end-users freedom to use the software.