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Charles R. Severance
Personal blog · dr-chuck.com/csev-blogprogrammingculture
Charles R. Severance's personal blog at dr-chuck.com covers programming and culture. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite his posts on open source licensing and vendor lock-in, such as the AGPL and a trend of open source used for lock-in. One commenter calls him a person with an informed opinion on teaching computing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Alternatively, you could just use the AGPL: http://www.dr-chuck.com/csev-blog/2014/09/how-to-achieve-ven...
Comment linking /csev-blog/2014/09/how-to-achieve-vendor-lock-in-with-a-legit-open-source-license-affero-gpl/
on “A plan for open source software maintainers”Submitted How to Achieve Vendor Lock-In with a Legit Open-Source License – AGPL (2014) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis isn't really that surprising when you see it as part of a general trend of open source software being used to achieve vendor lock-in [1]. [1] http://www.dr-chuck.com/csev-blog/2014/09/how-to-achieve-ven...
Comment linking /csev-blog/2014/09/how-to-achieve-vendor-lock-in-with-a-legit-open-source-license-affero-gpl/
on “GitLab Isn’t Really Open-Source”Submitted An Open Source Community Should not cede Leadership to a Commercial Entity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe PLT group and particularly Matthias Felleisen have been engaged in computer pedagogy for several decades. http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/ Dr. Chuck is another person with an informed opinion. http://www.dr-chuck.com/ That said, I wouldn't discount the experience and opinions of professional trainers such as Kathy Sierra or people like Zed 'The Hard Way' Shaw. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Sierra Th…
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on “Ask HN: What should I teach at a boot camp?”
