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Michael Slater
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Michael Slater writes Parting Thoughts, a personal blog at partingthoughts.net about programming and writing. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Why Are Warranty Disclaimers in ALL CAPS?”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post is about the Lil License, a modified MIT license that adds a contributor license agreement. The one comment discusses the license itself and does not comment on the writing.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Why Are Warranty Disclaimers in ALL CAPS?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-05-24
What Hacker News says?
That's a shame. Kudos to them for trying to improve the MIT license, and for explicitly incorporating a contributor license agreement. However, it would probably behoove them to actually get an actual lawyer to take a look at the license, if only to have some kind of up-front certification for adopters that the thing won't get them sued or taken advantage of. There are several changes from the original MIT language…
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