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Re:Ask HN: How does a tech person work well in a fire-all-de... by JoachimSchipper on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @03:33PM (#19258069)
You may be inspired by "Fork yeah" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16839529 - bcantrill on Solaris.

But that was a situation in which an earlier version was already open-sourced. You could consider reimplementing the system as open source, if IP rights and non-competes don't prevent it.

But accepting that the owners killed the system is likely to make you happier.

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Re:Ask HN: How does a tech person work well in a fire-all-de... by corp_confusion on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @06:40PM (#19259487)
> You may be inspired by "Fork yeah"

I've seen that. A wonderful talk.

> But accepting that the owners killed the system is likely to make you happier.

I understand. Nevertheless, I always feel there are options for making something better. This Ask HN is about how to do so.

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