Comment on Ask PG: Why is Hacker News not Open Source? Comments−tomasien14yAsk OP: Why SHOULD it be open source?1. Asking "Why isn't it this" without a "this is why it should be this" is such an easy argument it must always be ignored2. Hacker News is a Y Combinator entity. If it were to be open source, it would be open source to YC people only I can only assume.−rbanffy14y1) because we could then help make it better (or make a couple HNs)I believe there is an old version available.2) open source for some people but not for others is an interesting concept.−dfc14yOpen source for some people but not others? Thats not open source...−tomasien14yI know we're considering a new model for open source. I'd say that's a semantic argument but it's more of a semantic observation−rbanffy14ySorry. Forgot the <sarcasm> tag.
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Ask OP: Why SHOULD it be open source?
1. Asking "Why isn't it this" without a "this is why it should be this" is such an easy argument it must always be ignored
2. Hacker News is a Y Combinator entity. If it were to be open source, it would be open source to YC people only I can only assume.
1) because we could then help make it better (or make a couple HNs)
I believe there is an old version available.
2) open source for some people but not for others is an interesting concept.
Open source for some people but not others? Thats not open source...
I know we're considering a new model for open source. I'd say that's a semantic argument but it's more of a semantic observation
Sorry. Forgot the <sarcasm> tag.