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A comment on Show HN: TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages. Parent comment

Re:Show HN: TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages by JimDabell on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @05:55PM (#18395633)
> ...as risky as installing a proprietary editor plugin which updates automatically, yes.

Can't you make the same complaint about any auto-update functionality in any software? Even if it's BSD licensed, you're still counting on whomever has authority to push an update to not push malicious code.

This doesn't seem to have anything to do with the fact that his code is proprietary nor his monetisation strategy, so why are you singling him out for those?

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Re:Show HN: TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages by itdaniher on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @06:48PM (#18395941)
Proprietary - Can't patch out the autoupdate, which I might be tempted to do if something else in my toolchain did things at someone else's leisure.

DRM/monetisation - the product as of my comment didn't seem to acknowledge the open source works compiled into the binary, and I didn't think that was a good look for someone with the authority to push out malicious code.

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