whoville

> at this point I don’t think it makes sense to consider Sid’s intent nefarious

Why not? He's spouting a bunch of ridiculous bullshit about licensing without any consensus among people who are experts in licensing and ethical questions and business questions, eg: the FSF, the OSI licensing list, the FSFE Legal Network, and all so he can make money. Looks nefarious enough to me, at least if you believe in free software.

Edit: HN won't let me post. Heather Meeker wrote the SSPL for MongoDB, then she helped write this which is all about protecting against the SSPL. If you cite a person as the licensing expert for credibility when the thing is completely contradictory to what that person has written in the past should result in loss of credibility, not gaining it. She's a lawyer for her client, wrapping up their chosen business model in novel legal bullshit to help sell it.

I read that and thought: this is ridiculous. First of all, assigning copyright to FSF or SFC is way way better protection. Also DCO has nothing to do with protecting, the protection is from "inbound = outbound" contributions are under the same license as the project, this is the standard. A DCO is just something a few Linux Foundation lawyers dreamed up in order to help give companies faith in using Linux and is basically irrelevant. More info https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/FSF-copyright-handling .

> The unix time is synced with UTC

No, it isn't. The very article you linked explains that Unix time is monotonically increasing and ignores leap seconds.