Goodbye, "free software"; hello, "open source"
The original call to switch to the term `open source'.
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 4 posts.
The original call to switch to the term `open source'.
Java's not even *fun* enough to laugh at. I expect after your sabbatical you would be trolling at Scala or Haskell or Go ! What's next ? Jokes about making GUIs in VB ? Pshh. Seriously though, I can get the attack on privateness and finality. From someone with a strong dynamic tropism, that makes sense. But that good…
Prior to joining Google I always joked that Google was the black hole that swallowed up open source programmers. I'd see awesome, productive hackers join Google and then hear little to nothing from them afterwards. When I joined I decided I'd solve this mystery and post about it but it's been over…