Re:Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform
by Conan_Kudo on Thursday June 16, 2022 @12:43PM
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Well, this site isn't about hackers in the classical sense. It's about people working on building businesses and startups. The URL tells you everything: "news.ycombinator.com".
This is, first and foremost, about the business, not the people or the technology.
Re:Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform
by mattgreenrocks on Thursday June 16, 2022 @08:10PM
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I’ve yet to find a better watering hole for technologists. If you know of one, I’m all ears.
Re:Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform
by thaneross on Thursday June 16, 2022 @02:34PM
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The dichotomy is pretty stark sometimes on this site between the excellent conversations about technology and the SV capitalists musing about how to get richer.
Re:Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform
by nickstinemates on Thursday June 16, 2022 @01:27PM
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Amen.
The further corporatisation of OSS through lobbying organizations like the CNCF is a sad state of affairs. But it is also the place where VCs are putting a lot of their money. That and until 2 weeks ago, Web3
I still recall people fawning over how Google was going to be "different" in 2006, and how it was going to save us from Microsoft. Nowadays, they are essentially what MS was in its' heyday. Blind faith in corporations is not the way forward.
I've always understood the hacker ethos to have strong tenets of working towards decentralized power structures through tech. Nowadays, that idea feels farther away even on a site like this one.