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Gnome Foundation and Groupon product names – Updated

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Re: Gnome Foundation and Groupon product names – Updated

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Post by AnkhMorporkian »

rasengan wrote: post #10

Groupon lies. However the end result is good either way for GNOME and open source. Now the only question is why was the fastest up voted post in HN history which was Gnome vs Groupon in favor of Gnome moderated to the second page while this Groupon post is at the top of the front page with almost no votes! Does someone at HN have stock in groupon or something? Either way it's time for a transparent Blockchain based H…

I want to see any emails before I determine that they were lying. There's no reason to assume bad faith.

Re: Gnome Foundation and Groupon product names – Updated

#22

Post by SwellJoe »

herge wrote: post #18
rasengan wrote: post #10

Groupon lies. However the end result is good either way for GNOME and open source. Now the only question is why was the fastest up voted post in HN history which was Gnome vs Groupon in favor of Gnome moderated to the second page while this Groupon post is at the top of the front page with almost no votes! Does someone at HN have stock in groupon or something? Either way it's time for a transparent Blockchain based H…

> Either way it's time for a transparent Blockchain based HN/reddit. I'm sure you could drum up something along with the group from comp.lang.lisp who are trying to write reddit back in lisp.

FWIW, Hacker News is written in arc, a variant of Lisp. So, there's that.

Re: Gnome Foundation and Groupon product names – Updated

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Post by DanBC »

AnkhMorporkian wrote: post #21
rasengan wrote: post #10

Groupon lies. However the end result is good either way for GNOME and open source. Now the only question is why was the fastest up voted post in HN history which was Gnome vs Groupon in favor of Gnome moderated to the second page while this Groupon post is at the top of the front page with almost no votes! Does someone at HN have stock in groupon or something? Either way it's time for a transparent Blockchain based H…

I want to see any emails before I determine that they were lying. There's no reason to assume bad faith.

Except they chose to use the name Gnome which was already being used which is a bad faith move. There's no possible way they didn't know about Gnome - there's photographs of at least one Groupon employee who was also involved in Gnome.

Re: Gnome Foundation and Groupon product names – Updated

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Post by [deleted] »

AnkhMorporkian wrote: post #21
rasengan wrote: post #10

Groupon lies. However the end result is good either way for GNOME and open source. Now the only question is why was the fastest up voted post in HN history which was Gnome vs Groupon in favor of Gnome moderated to the second page while this Groupon post is at the top of the front page with almost no votes! Does someone at HN have stock in groupon or something? Either way it's time for a transparent Blockchain based H…

I want to see any emails before I determine that they were lying. There's no reason to assume bad faith.

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Re: Gnome Foundation and Groupon product names – Updated

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Post by rasengan »

valarauca1 wrote: post #19
rasengan wrote: post #10

Groupon lies. However the end result is good either way for GNOME and open source. Now the only question is why was the fastest up voted post in HN history which was Gnome vs Groupon in favor of Gnome moderated to the second page while this Groupon post is at the top of the front page with almost no votes! Does someone at HN have stock in groupon or something? Either way it's time for a transparent Blockchain based H…

>Blockchain based HN/reddit. This moderator bias crap is bs. Problem you'll run into is that storage space isn't free. And every single miner having a mirrored copy of HN wouldn't exactly burn though storage quickly, but wouldn't exactly be a very good way to create this transparency.

It doesn't have to be the Bitcoin blockchain and doesn't need to be mirrored on 100s of machines. As long as it is transparent, query/browsable and mirrored on a few machines for authenticity it will be enough to protect against moderators having too much unscrupulous biased money/profit based power.

Re: Gnome Foundation and Groupon product names – Updated

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Post by subpixel »

"We love open source at Groupon. We have open sourced a number of projects on Groupon github."

I would have expected some reference to how crucial open source has been, and continues to be, to Groupon's ability to function as a modern internet business. Not a small omission.

Re: Gnome Foundation and Groupon product names – Updated

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Post by venomsnake »

AnkhMorporkian wrote: post #21
rasengan wrote: post #10

Groupon lies. However the end result is good either way for GNOME and open source. Now the only question is why was the fastest up voted post in HN history which was Gnome vs Groupon in favor of Gnome moderated to the second page while this Groupon post is at the top of the front page with almost no votes! Does someone at HN have stock in groupon or something? Either way it's time for a transparent Blockchain based H…

I want to see any emails before I determine that they were lying. There's no reason to assume bad faith.

www.gnome.org is the first result in google when searching gnome.

It takes extraordinary amounts of willful ignorance to not find the existence of gnome.org

If their product was something marginally connected to IT I would have assumed good faith either.

If tomorrow Elon says - the new Tesla Gnome - the world's first electric sport bike, there will be no backlash.

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