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One thing that you should know is that your 'appdash' trace links are publicly available. You can see a screenshot here https://www.dropbox.com/s/vfu2sbz2ctlxwsx/Screenshot%202015-...
Is it an unwritten rule that the CEOs of companies focusing on git hosting solutions prefix all their HN posts with " CEO here," :)
Bad reply to undisclosed comment: hey dude, maybe you should disclose that you work on X project in that post where you critize the competitors.
Good self: "disclosure I work for X company"
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Sourcegraph CEO here. :) We released Sourcegraph under the Fair Source License ( https://fair.io/ ), which we worked with a well-known open-source lawyer to draft. TLDR is that it lets us create the best product for developers by having a sustainable business. Full info at https://fair.io : > Fair Source allows companies to both share a product’s source code and charge for that product. Releasing a product’s source c…
When you go to the source link at https://src.sourcegraph.com/sourcegraph and look at the LICENSE file, it says: "Use Limitation: 15 users" That implies that the project there is the full Enterprise version? Is there a separate link or some dividing line to the Core source? Or how does one build or access just the core features to abide by the licensing terms if you're a team larger than 15 and want to evaluate Core…
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Open source is about the source being open plus certain benefits. Free and open source software, a la Richard Stallman, is a totally different thing with a philosophy akin to how a virus operates. A glance at fair.io shows an interesting attempt to provide OSS under a proprietary model. Many businesses are fine with whatever gets the job done with main benefits of OSS being reviewing, extending, or just fixing things…
> Curious, do you write comments like this whenever... Uh.. I actually often do. I would more, but it generally isn't appreciated and is off topic of the main thread. Here, the software license is a key component of the release seeing as it is a unique component of it. >Open source is about the source being open plus certain benefits. It's more than that. The key intent of OSS is the right to study, change, and distr…
No, the key intent of open-sourcing software is to let one see the source. That's it. Additional intents are added with licensing terms. This goes back to academic and even proprietary (eg Burrough's 1960's MCP) examples that did this. Many models of it formed with examples ranging from permissive BSD to proprietary OSS like LISP machines (esp Genera) letting customers use the source of OS & supporting libs in applications.
So, OSS is a broader thing than you are describing which supports many models. There is no "spirit" so much as many different ideologies competing and pushing their own licensing schemes with various perceived benefits. Now there's one more.
This looks really great, thanks for making it open-source and for releasing https://fair.io as a new license model. One thing that you should know is that your 'appdash' trace links are publicly available. You can see a screenshot here https://www.dropbox.com/s/vfu2sbz2ctlxwsx/Screenshot%202015-...
I've created an issue[1] so I can fix this soon; it's just a link to the trace served by Appdash[2] and the instance isn't actually public so it's not a security issue (just a broken link). Certainly shouldn't be visible to non-devs who can't access it, though. Really appreciate the feedback, let me know if you have more! :)
Sourcegraph CEO here. We have large enterprise customers using Sourcegraph and are excited to release it publicly (with source code) so anyone can start using Sourcegraph for their team's code. Feedback is much appreciated! More info at the announcement blog post ( https://sourcegraph.com/blog/133554180524/announcing-the-sou... ) and at https://sourcegraph.com .
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> Curious, do you write comments like this whenever... Uh.. I actually often do. I would more, but it generally isn't appreciated and is off topic of the main thread. Here, the software license is a key component of the release seeing as it is a unique component of it. >Open source is about the source being open plus certain benefits. It's more than that. The key intent of OSS is the right to study, change, and distr…
"The key intent of OSS is the right to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose. The source code is just a prereq for that ability." No, the key intent of open-sourcing software is to let one see the source. That's it. Additional intents are added with licensing terms. This goes back to academic and even proprietary (eg Burrough's 1960's MCP) examples that did this. Many models of it f…
Is it an unwritten rule that the CEOs of companies focusing on git hosting solutions prefix all their HN posts with " CEO here," :)
I think it's a unwritten courtesy to make sure you attribute yourself to your company/project to better frame your post in the right perspective. Bad reply to undisclosed comment: hey dude, maybe you should disclose that you work on X project in that post where you critize the competitors. Good self: "disclosure I work for X company"
