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Spain is a majority Catholic country in part because of a widespread terroristic campaign of torturing and killing Jewish and Muslim Spanish people, carried out by the Catholic Chu…

Fair, I am using Redis as an example here, because I know more about (the technical side of) their product than some of the others. I think similar considerations apply to Mongo, E…

I'm just using piracy here to illustrate how your take is not founded in reality. You said: >Before we had open source, we released software as public domain. The spirit existed be…

Well, I think a lot of the people who were doing piracy would argue that they embodied the spirit of the community, and the anti-pirates were just a small minority who had a partic…

Do you include piracy in this? As I remember it the 'community' was completely divided for most of its existence between those who held that the spirit meant writing your own softw…

I would say the difference between Amazon and Elastic is that Amazon has to compete in the marketplace and keep their customers happy to earn money. Elastic now has a business mode…

First of all the 'spirit' of the new license is "you can do anything you like with the code, except if we don't want you to". Nobody knows when or whether one of these companies wi…

I disagree. I personally would prefer to license the code I write myself with a GPL copyleft or a 'no commercial use' type of license. However, I license it instead under MIT, spec…

Yes, I think that this article missed the point to some extent. Knowing C quite well and C++ not very well, learning the Java 'language' was quite easy. Learning the Java 'model'/'…

Psychiatry is extremely committed to other forms of medication, which are in general not particularly effective, and also extremely dangerous in various ways. Of course there are s…

Well, you don't need steak either, but both things are considered extremely important to human life and our society.

Yes, if you compare farmers with actors, they seem to have similar problems with stability of employment, low pay, and hard working conditions. In both cases these are partly cause…