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Re:21 Makes Bitcoin Useful to Developers by corv on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @12:08AM (#11626111)
"21 is free software that implements the Payment Required HTTP status code and much more besides. It makes it easy to (a) send and receive micropayments over HTTP and to (b) write new kinds of programs that use this basic technology as an intrinsic primitive, like machine-payable APIs and intelligent agents."
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Re:21 Makes Bitcoin Useful to Developers by cyphar on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @01:27AM (#11626407)
"Free software": I don't see a GitHub repo. And they have non-free terms of use. The admin should use a better word, like gratis, to describe a proprietary service.
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Re:21 Makes Bitcoin Useful to Developers by TylerE on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @02:59PM (#11630756)
They're only required to deliver source to anyone they give a binary to. Having a "github repo" isn't any part of the open source/free software definition.
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