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James Dixon
Personal blog · jamesdixon.wordpress.combusinessprogramming
James Dixon's personal blog at jamesdixon.wordpress.com covers business and programming. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a Pipenv thread to explain the 'free as in beer' versus 'free as in speech' meaning of 'free', a distinction the post's URL slug suggests it covers. Only one comment, which cites the post as support.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
James Dixon's thoughts on commercial open source and open source business intelligence
What Hacker News says?
Sure it can be used to referred to price: "freedom of cost", thus "free as in beer" -vs- "free as in speech", a common expression you may have heard before, if you are aware of the Free Software Foundation. https://jamesdixon.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/what-does-free-a... It's not that it demonstrates a political motivation, just an ignorance of the actual free software culture they're trying to associate themselves w…
Comment linking /2008/06/04/what-does-free-as-in-beer-mean-what-does-free-as-in-speech-mean/
on “Pipenv: promises a lot, delivers very little”Submitted SAS under pressure from Pentaho as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted React and D3 Integration – James Dixon's Blog as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Forking Protocol: Why, When, and How to Fork an Open Source Project as a story · 1 points
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