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Google has ticked off IBM, Oracle, and many in the open-source world

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Re: Google has ticked off IBM, Oracle, and many in the open-source world

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Post by paulie_a »

pndy wrote: post #9
capableweb wrote: post #3

Annoying paywall, how is businessinsider.com even allowed on HN nowadays? Here is the full article: http://archive.is/1oTMU > While Istio is an open-source project — meaning anybody, anywhere can contribute code Seems the meaning of open source is getting more and more perverse as time goes on. Open source never has meant that anyone can contribute code, it's just about you being able to use/modify the code as you wi…

> Annoying paywall, how is businessinsider.com even allowed on HN nowadays? Just a "funny" thing to share: because of adblocking extensions I'm unable load any of their articles - whatever I click from BI, no matter if it's US or Polish version, I'm getting 404.

Don't worry too much. It's business insider, even of the page works the content is 404.

Re: Google has ticked off IBM, Oracle, and many in the open-source world

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Post by paulie_a »

smartbit wrote: post #7
hrcxxx wrote: post #2

Paywall. Not cool.

With https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/ no paywall issues for me.

Thanks for the project link. I've just been using the "don't show articles from____" feature in my Android/google news feed.

Re: Google has ticked off IBM, Oracle, and many in the open-source world

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Post by MereInterest »

capableweb wrote: post #3

Annoying paywall, how is businessinsider.com even allowed on HN nowadays? Here is the full article: http://archive.is/1oTMU > While Istio is an open-source project — meaning anybody, anywhere can contribute code Seems the meaning of open source is getting more and more perverse as time goes on. Open source never has meant that anyone can contribute code, it's just about you being able to use/modify the code as you wi…

I feel like that is a consequence of people being so entrenched in a centralized mindset that the possibility of a user customizing their own version of the software doesn't even occur to them. Open source is frequently touted as allowing anyone to make changes to the software to suit their needs. If somebody hears that while having the incorrect mental model of a single canonical version of software, I can see how they would assume that anyone can contribute to that single canonical version.

Re: Google has ticked off IBM, Oracle, and many in the open-source world

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Post by consumer451 »

pndy wrote: post #9
capableweb wrote: post #3

Annoying paywall, how is businessinsider.com even allowed on HN nowadays? Here is the full article: http://archive.is/1oTMU > While Istio is an open-source project — meaning anybody, anywhere can contribute code Seems the meaning of open source is getting more and more perverse as time goes on. Open source never has meant that anyone can contribute code, it's just about you being able to use/modify the code as you wi…

> Annoying paywall, how is businessinsider.com even allowed on HN nowadays? Just a "funny" thing to share: because of adblocking extensions I'm unable load any of their articles - whatever I click from BI, no matter if it's US or Polish version, I'm getting 404.

I have my iOS Safari set to display webpages in Reader View by default. Among the benefits is that BI’s paywall is avoided. I imagine that Reader Mode would also work for this purpose on Firefox desktop.

Also, I have Firefox Focus set as a Safari content blocker and have no issues.

Re: Google has ticked off IBM, Oracle, and many in the open-source world

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Post by stunt »

I'm not sure if calling Kubernetes a strategic mistake is real.

The fight over container orchestration was not over until everyone felt safe and could trust it. Development experience, features etc did play a role as well, but it probably couldn't win it alone. CNCF played a huge role to its widespread success if you don't count early adopters.

I'm not sure if this is a right move after all the support that Google did put behind CNCF.

I personally would be more happy to see Google being more transparent with their intends instead of saying it's all about trademark management.

Re: Google has ticked off IBM, Oracle, and many in the open-source world

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Post by SpicyLemonZest »

zozbot234 wrote: post #15

If this is a pure trademark issue, what keeps the "ticked off" organizations from forking the project under a non-trademarked name? Just call it cloudweasel, or something.

Only Google considers it to be a trademark issue. The external developers were hoping that having the project in the CNCF would allow them to have more say over its development while still benefiting from Google's ongoing contributions. Now they have to pick one or the other.

Re: Google has ticked off IBM, Oracle, and many in the open-source world

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Post by jart »

Google needs improvement on self awareness w.r.t. open source. They used to be better at generating good will in the community. They've certainly done a lot to make many people needlessly unhappy in recent years. It's like a fat cat who owns the whole cake, yet claws the little guy for wanting a few crumbs.

Re: Google has ticked off IBM, Oracle, and many in the open-source world

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Post by nix23 »

prepend wrote: post #18
nix23 wrote: post #4

Crazy i don't see a paywall, are they turning the paywall of if they have many hits without logins? Maybe??

I don’t think I’ve ever been to business insider and I had a subscriber blocker pop up instead of the article.

NO i mean when different ip's in a short time go to the Article with out reading it (login), they open the paywall so that they can 'hide' the paywall, a still be linked to sites like HN.

Why the down-vote? I have uBlock and Privacy Badger and no login at businessinsider and i see no paywall.

Proof: https://imgur.com/a/53MNorf

EDIT: Nice i see! Everyone mentioned 'paywall' got a Down-vote @HN maybe wanna block that poorly written BI robot?

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