Is Fair Source Cool Yet?
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#3,108of 3,515 in 2024
Top 89%of 2024 by points
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QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
0 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 2 comments about the project.
Idea: 0 for, 1 against
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Surprised by the number of Fair Source projects, including large ones
From 1 comment
I built this to try out shadcn/ui and to better keep tabs on new Fair Source [0] projects. I was pleasantly surprised to discover quite the lot of projects previously unknown to…
ezekg on HN
Objections
Two-year delay may not stop freeloaders given slow adoption
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It's amusing that people think that a two-year lag in licensing is enough to thwart the so-called freeloaders. It could take way more time than that just for you to get noticed…
kazinator on HN
The term free-rider is confusing or misapplied
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Okay. Let's talk about the semantics of the pariah being targeted by some of the fair source rhetoric. Is it "free-rider" as in beer? Or "free-rider" as in speech?
kazinator on HNBut the free as a free speech is the free that matters in software. So it must be that if free riders are bad, they must be some kind of free speech type free riders. Because…
kazinator on HN
Requests
Show axis labels on the graph without clicking
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I do not know to much about fair source yet but as a note it would be nice if the graph on your site hat axis labels without clicking on it
pyzn on HN
Questions
What does free-rider mean in the Fair Source context
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Okay. Let's talk about the semantics of the pariah being targeted by some of the fair source rhetoric. Is it "free-rider" as in beer? Or "free-rider" as in speech?
kazinator on HNI'm having trouble even conceptualizing "free-riding" [0] as in speech. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-rider_problem
ezekg on HN