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ebb.org is a personal blog at ebb.org about programming and politics. Since 2009, 98 different Hacker News readers have linked it 153 times, most often “On Recent Controversial Events”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Sometimes recommended · 6 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Bradley M. Kuhn's blog for its writing on copyleft, CLAs and open-core licensing, and on the FSF and RMS dispute.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- On Recent Controversial Events12 people · 35 mentions · first linked 2019-10-15
- Why Your Project Doesn't Need a Contributor Licensing Agreement6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2015-03-03
- In Memoriam: Gervase Markham5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2018-07-29
- Bradley Kuhn: Project Harmony Considered Harmful5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2011-07-07
- /bkuhn/blog/2014/07/15/why-kallithea.html5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-03-12
- Open Core is the New ShareWare (2009)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-09-24
- 12 Years of GPL Compliance: A Historical Perspective3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-11-02
- Software Freedom Doesn't Kill People, Security Through Obscurity Kills People3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-08-14
- Why Diaspora's "Open Core" licensing arrangement is so egregious2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-10-19
- GCC, LLVM, Copyleft, Companies, and Non-Profits (2014)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-01-29
What Hacker News says?
Here is a (selective) look at the management of Mozilla in the recent past. From Mitchell Bakers blog https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2018/08/07/in-memoriam-gerva... “Gerv’s faith did not have ambiguity at least none that I ever saw. Gerv was crisp. He had very precise views about marriage, sex, gender and related topics. He was adamant that his interpretation was correct, and that his interpretation should be encod…
Comment linking /bkuhn/blog/2018/07/29/gerv.html
on “Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products”Submitted Why Greet Apple's Swift 2.0 With Open Arms? as a story · 421 points
HN discussionA copyleft license is actually more conductive to Open Core development because it allows the copyright holder to reserve the right to create proprietary addons while shutting the community out of that option [1]. Not trying to insinuate that Light Table specifically is going to do this, but the option is still available. [1] http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2009/10/16/open-core-shareware.htm...
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on “Light Table is now open source”Submitted A Requiem for Ian Murdock as a story · 411 points
HN discussionI'll leave with this...how someone who disagreed with his religious values can still write a meaningful obit. http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2018/07/29/gerv.html
Comment linking /bkuhn/blog/2018/07/29/gerv.html
on “Mozilla lays off 70”Submitted Software Freedom Doesn't Kill People, Security Through Obscurity Kills People as a story · 192 points
HN discussionConsider reading http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2014/07/15/why-kallithea.html for more background.
Comment linking /bkuhn/blog/2014/07/15/why-kallithea.html
on “Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab”Submitted On Recent Controversial Events as a story · 161 points
HN discussion> Kallithea is partly a fork of our old, legacy version of RhodeCode without all the hard work our engineers spent over the last 12 months in turning an open source project into a real, sophisticated enterprise product. The marketing-speak, it burns. You turned your back on us. You lied. You and Marcin repeatedly told us that you were comitted to free software. I don't know if you lied to Marcin as well or if both o…
Comment linking /bkuhn/blog/2014/07/15/why-kallithea.html
on “Bidding farewell to Google Code”Submitted Sun, Oracle, Android, Google, Mozilla and JDK Copyleft FUD as a story · 161 points
HN discussionThere is also Kallithea ( https://kallithea-scm.org/ ). Kallithea is a free and libre fork of RhodeCode after they dropped their GPLV3 license for parts of the codebase and added a paid user limit. Kallithea is being actively developed (a 0.2 release is coming soon) by a free software community under the auspices of the software freedom conservancy. See this blog post from Bradley Kuhn for more details: http://ebb.o…
Comment linking /bkuhn/blog/2014/07/15/why-kallithea.html
on “Bidding farewell to Google Code”Submitted Canonical, Ltd. On Record: Seeking Open Core as a story · 101 points
HN discussionThis is an abridged view looking at a couple of statements and news articles from a few days in September 2019. The free software community's frustration with Richard Stallman had been going on for many, many years before then. The most you can say is that it provided a public impetus for the organization to act, and perhaps that public impetus was driven by journalists who misread his words. http://ebb.org/bkuhn/bl…
Comment linking /bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html
on “Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF”Submitted GCC, LLVM, Copyleft, Companies, and Non-Profits (2014) as a story · 94 points
HN discussionIf we're going to be understanding towards neurodivergent people, a good place to start is not defining "autism" as "the inability to be anything other than an asshole, the inability to understand after people patiently work with you to explain why people think you're being an asshole [1], and the inability to apologize." Also, a lot of the people who are upset with RMS and think he should stop being the figurehead…
Comment linking /bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html
on “Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF”Submitted 12 Years of GPL Compliance: A Historical Perspective as a story · 93 points
HN discussionWhy Your Project Doesn’t Need a Contributor Licensing Agreement , Monday 9 June 2014 by Bradley M. Kuhn: http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2014/06/09/do-not-need-cla.html
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on “ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open”Submitted The Symmetry of My UnAmerican McCarthyist Cancer (the GPL) as a story · 80 points
HN discussionOh look, another community edition program. "Open core is the new shareware." http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2009/10/16/open-core-shareware.htm...
Comment linking /bkuhn/blog/2009/10/16/open-core-shareware.html
on “JetBrains releases open-source Python IDE”Submitted Kuhn's Paradox as a story · 47 points
HN discussionSeveral people who worked there don't agree it ran just fine.[1][2] [1] http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html [2] https://twitter.com/paulnivin/status/1377079987950395393
Comment linking /bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html
on “RMS addresses the free software community”Submitted GPL software in cars doesn't kill people (2016) as a story · 33 points
HN discussionWhile I support RMS and find the lies peddled about him abhorrent, this article convinced me he is not fit to serve as the public face of free software: http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html In short: He harmed the cause of free software by making public statements on unrelated, controversial issues.
Comment linking /bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html
on “RMS addresses the free software community”Submitted Bradley Kuhn: Project Harmony Considered Harmful as a story · 30 points
HN discussionMozilla is Serving Users. A great Orwellian phrasing. http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2014/05/14/to-serve-users.html
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on “FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support DRM”Submitted Bradley Kuhn: I Think I Just Got Patented as a story · 25 points
HN discussion> What about the Apache Foundation CLA? This CLA is one of the better ones, because it doesn’t transfer copyright over your work to the Apache Foundation. I have no beef with clauses 1 and 3-8. However, term 2 is too broad and I would not sign this CLA. Term 2 of the CLA just defines inbound=outbound for Term 2 of the License ( https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 ). The Apache CLA is pretty benign (for proje…
Comment linking /bkuhn/blog/2011/07/07/harmony-harmful.html
on “Don’t sign a CLA”Submitted On Recent Controversial Events – Bradley M. Kuhn as a story · 22 points
HN discussionWe kinda do have it; it's just mostly useless, given the linking clause. (Not entirely useless, though, as that article sets out.) GPL and AGPL have the same layout, so you can just take the LGPL, and replace all references to 'GPL' and 'GNU General Public License' with 'AGPL' and 'GNU Affero General Public License'. Of course, you couldn't call that license 'GNU ALGPL' or 'GNU LAGPL'; you'd have to come up with you…
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on “Show HN: Cozo – new Graph DB with Datalog, embedded like SQLite”Submitted Bradley Kuhn: Questioning The Original Analysis On The Bionic Debate as a story · 16 points
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