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Molly de Blanc

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Molly de Blanc's personal blog at deblanc.net covers programming and philosophy. Since 2018, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “1028 Words on Free Software”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2018–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked for its explanation of the Open Source Definition and user freedom. One commenter cites it to argue that open source and free software are the same thing seen from different viewpoints.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. 1028 Words on Free Software
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. Actually not even that. It is just defined from the other point of view. Open source is free software. Free software is open source. http://deblanc.net/blog/2018/12/13/the-osd-and-user-freedom/

    Comment linking /blog/2018/12/13/the-osd-and-user-freedom/

    on “License Changes for Confluent Platform”
  2. Submitted 1028 Words on Free Software by Molly de Blanc as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted 1028 Words on Free Software as a story · 3 points

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  4. Submitted Are there too many FLOSS conferences? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Why should you work on Free Software (or other technology issues)? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted 1028 Words on Free Software as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Digital Self as a story · 1 points

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  8. Submitted Endorsements as a story · 1 points

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