Show HN: Open Paperless 2 – Scan, OCR, and catalog all your paper documents • Hacker News Board

jaguar221 wrote: post #4

stephenr wrote: post #3

Doesn't really tell me much about why it could be considered "Open".

https://github.com/zhoubear/open-paperless

That still doesn't tell me why the website asks for a $4/month fee.

Re: Show HN: Open Paperless 2 – Scan, OCR, and catalog all your paper documents

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Post by aminoson » Tue, Oct 02, 2018, 5:50 PM UTC

Nice! I prefer open source software like this when dealing private data like receipts and invoices.

Re: Show HN: Open Paperless 2 – Scan, OCR, and catalog all your paper documents

#7

Post by mayli » Tue, Oct 02, 2018, 8:26 PM UTC

stephenr wrote: post #5

jaguar221 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://github.com/zhoubear/open-paperless

That still doesn't tell me why the website asks for a $4/month fee.

because hosting and maintain a website costs money, it's an opensource procect, meaning you can host it on your own (for free).

Re: Show HN: Open Paperless 2 – Scan, OCR, and catalog all your paper documents

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Post by stephenr » Tue, Oct 02, 2018, 8:32 PM UTC

mayli wrote: post #7

stephenr wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That still doesn't tell me why the website asks for a $4/month fee.

because hosting and maintain a website costs money, it's an opensource procect, meaning you can host it on your own (for free).

That still doesn't explain what the licence is for.

It says "After completing the checkout, you will receive an email containing your product key and installation instructions."

So, its still an installed version. I love how everyone is champing at the bit "oh its on GitHub look you're just stupid its open source" when you have no fucking idea what the licence is for either.

Re: Show HN: Open Paperless 2 – Scan, OCR, and catalog all your paper documents

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Post by app4soft » Tue, Oct 02, 2018, 8:33 PM UTC

mayli wrote: post #7

stephenr wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That still doesn't tell me why the website asks for a $4/month fee.

because hosting and maintain a website costs money, it's an opensource procect, meaning you can host it on your own (for free).

> meaning you can host it on your own (for free).

You should tell more about it in README.md, IMHO.

Re: Show HN: Open Paperless 2 – Scan, OCR, and catalog all your paper documents

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Post by sharlasers10 » Tue, Oct 02, 2018, 10:01 PM UTC

stephenr wrote: post #8

mayli wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

because hosting and maintain a website costs money, it's an opensource procect, meaning you can host it on your own (for free).

That still doesn't explain what the licence is for. It says "After completing the checkout, you will receive an email containing your product key and installation instructions." So, its still an installed version. I love how everyone is champing at the bit "oh its on GitHub look you're just stupid its open source" when you have no fucking idea what the licence is for either.

It's dual licensed, commercial Open Source. Not the first. I just love to see how every time a woman tries to do something in IT, trolls and gamegaters come out of the swamps to discredit the work. They act like it is the first time someone has done commercial Open Source and is somehow hard to understand and in violation of some imaginary ethical or legal canon.