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> Basically you want free beer like Linux? Get a distribution from OpenJDK. After the Oracle lawsuit, why should people feel safe believing that Oracle will respect the terms of th…

> With an internal repository, everyone in your enterprise will be able to view the Page with the same credentials they use to login to github.com Public service announcement: "log…

I thought this was obvious.

> You can see the running version at https://bitchin.net > 502 Bad Gateway Yeah, it’s written in V.

Scott McNealy, under direct examination on 2012 April 26: "you can't license GPL code and then resell it for a profit" Source: Official Reporters for the US District Court for the …

Just like your last message[1], the answer is "but why male models?" (in other words, I just answered that[2]; do you want me to repeat it[3] or something?) 1. https://news.ycombin…

This is a perplexing response. Oracle's case against Google is about copyright infringement. On that point, you are correct, but that's where your comments part from reality. Oracl…

It's like we're not even having the same conversation. McNealy, founder of Sun, testified under oath that GPL doesn't permit commercial use. What was unclear about this the first t…

https://xkcd.com/774/

This comment is playing fast and loose with the facts. No part of Oracle's suit against Google relied on the claim that "Java wasn't open-source at the time Google copied it" (for …

There's no reason to think that you're safe even if it were Apache-licensed. One of the things that was made clear in Oracle v. Google is that Oracle effectively treats litigation …

This is an argument about checked indexing, not about where indexing should start; after all, whatever the index base, you still need to check that the index fits within the bounds…

But zero is an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_number_(mathematics) . The unintuitive step is apparently identifying the index with the cardinality of the collection from bef…

Zero- versus one-based indexing actually matters somewhat for correctness. The real trivial ‘small syntactic technical’ bikeshedding is braces versus indentation (and: which kind o…

I don’t know why 1-based-indexing supporters insist on pointing out this distinction. Whenever one indexes some kind of a map with numbers – and it actually matters that they are n…

> But we don't need to rely on Dijkstra's opinion at all. I don’t. I refer to Dijkstra’s opinion because it happens to coincide with my opinion, it’s already written down, and it w…

IDDQD, IDKFA and I'm in.

It comes with the territory; aiding you in the quest for cool is one of GitHub's only value propositions. Because it's certainly not about productivity. People substitute having a …

It's partially related the webmail-vs-IMAP problem: direct access and control over your data. An example: There is a pending suit that will ultimately be settled with an insurance …

Right, there’s still the photorealistic CGI version to be made.

This is nothing more than apologetics, and not even good apologetics. Instead, speculative apologetics, i.e. no solid footing by which to understand the premise.

> I genuinely have no idea what point you are trying to make. The point, as already stated, is that people who were official mouthpieces for Mozilla said for years that the default…

Pfft, please. The staff cuts are among the least offensive things done under the Mozilla name. Much more value was created earlier by unpaid volunteers who were rewarded by having …

> in 2015 Mozilla negotiated a deal with Yahoo netting them an additional $100+ million ... after spending years saying that the relationship with Google regarding search royalties…

Once upon a time, someone affiliated with Thunderbird project maintenance/governance posted a detailed reply to HN describing how hard it was to get Mozilla to release funds that i…