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Yes, Oracle does this with MySQL. If you want to use MySQL in a way that the GPL doesn’t permit, then you are supposed to buy a license. I have no idea if they are making a lot of money from this.

I'm not saying that we are literally unable to make money off of free software. We can and donations / advertising / GPL license exemptions / crowd-funding all work to some degree.

My point was that even though the "don't give it away for free" model works, we should still try to improve the profitability of funding models where we can give software away for free.

That sounds like a very low bar you set for yourself.

They do that by selling support, or additional non-free features bundled into an "enterprise edition" (at least in the case of Docker). I don't think that's something Feross or other open source maintainers are interested in doing.

Don't violate the prime directive.

Well, obviously selling paid software is a well known way to make money. However, it would be really cool if we could give away software for free and make money off it at the same time.

There's a good article about this practice here: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling-exceptions.en.html

Usually you wouldn't use the MIT license to do it, but it's the same idea.

It sounds like the worst thing Cooper is being accused of is yelling at people. That's pretty common and I'm surprised that he would be suspended for that alone. Surely there's more to the story, right?

> We’ve shifted the Overton window.

That is hyperbolic. Housing development was never outside the realm of acceptable public discourse, it was just less popular.

Thanks, I'll give that a shot.

Is there a place I can view all the sponsor segments I've submitted? It would be nice to see them individually, maybe with stats about how often each one was used and whether or not it is in good standing w/rt voting.

At their core, ads are a form of psychological manipulation. Subjecting yourself to this manipulation just because you feel guilty about getting a "free lunch" is absurd. Tracking and resource usage are also bad, but they're not the root of the problem.

Pick a less harmful way of funding content creators, like direct donation.

Are they actually running iOS firmware in a web browser, or is this more like an advanced version of BrowserStack, where the firmware is running on a server or a physical device?

Whoever came up with the idea of re-marketing children's toys to adults was a genius. It combines the passive consumerism of kids with the expendable income of adults in a way that simply wouldn't have been tolerated more than a few decades ago.

I didn't realize XArchiver was obscure. I use that pretty regularly.

Is model/serial number scanning something that the existing machines do? I've never heard of the TSA having that capability.

The article doesn't explain how they intend to enforce this ban. A recalled MacBook looks identical to the non-recalled ones, so this seems like a pointless rule.

This is just whataboutism. Other companies doing bad things doesn't make Microsoft's bad things any less bad.

> Honestly, it felt kind of shitty to delete the repository and unpin the project from my profile.

It is kind of shitty to do that. Why not just archive the repo and add a note to the README that you've turned it into non-free software? At least that way you don't break the main link to the project or remove all the content from the issue tracker. This is a project that other people have contributed work to, so it's rude to just destroy that.

The most recent fork I can find is here: https://github.com/kuldeepkeshwar/sizzy

That's an unfortunate acronym.

I use a dotfiles repo in git and GNU Stow. I could automate more of the setup work, but I do it so rarely that just having my config files backed up and replicated is enough.

> U.S. states are sovereign entities with their own criminal laws, tax regimes, educational systems, property and contract rights, civil rights, economic growth, industries, natural resources, etc.

States can hardly be considered sovereign entities anymore. They are subservient to federal laws, educational standards, international trade restrictions, environmental protections, etc. States aren't even allowed to leave the federation.

I didn't think it was very ad-like. If Anna Wiener were trying to boost the profile of HN then she probably wouldn't have included all those random examples of "toxic" comments and political discussions that she disagrees with.

It was certainly positive toward the moderators, but not the site as a whole.

> That's inserting bias.

Are you implying that this article was trying to be bias-free? The author spent entire paragraphs just cherry-picking "toxic" things that have been said on HN to make discussion here look bad.

Does anyone know the technical details of how this happened? Did someone just run a spider on the e3expo.com site and find the publicly accessible URL that way, or did they do something more advanced?

Are you talking about the idea of a military as a whole, or the wars that were involved in right now?

I don't think that paying a monthly subscription gets me news that is any less fake or higher-quality than what I can find from non-paywalled sources.

I guess I'm a "credulous moron".

> we can enjoy many services free of charge

It's not free of charge, you're just paying in a different way. These services are able to operate because they deliver content that changes your mind in a way that benefits the corporations who pay for ads. They alter your purchasing habits, sway you politically, and change your emotions. If they were not able to manipulate you then they would be worthless.

> If advertisers want to advertise to me, that's fine. I understand they need to make money.

I feel sad just reading that. Advertisers are paid to deliver targeted psychological manipulation to you, and yet you feel ashamed for making their work less profitable. It's like observing some kind of digital stockholm syndrome.

There's a browser extension that does that: https://adnauseam.io