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Re:ᚣ the Rune Programming Language by threatofrain on Sunday November 27, 2022 @03:22AM (#33761381)
Even if there aren't, it makes sense to clarify to media that this is an open source project made without any business commitments. I've seen other businesses do something similar; internally it reduces friction with the business admin when devs want to open source something.
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Re:ᚣ the Rune Programming Language by throwawaybutwhy on Sunday November 27, 2022 @03:34AM (#33761446)
_without any business commitments_ - not to sound trite, but when is the last time Google stood by its commitments?
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Re:ᚣ the Rune Programming Language by ithkuil on Sunday November 27, 2022 @04:47AM (#33761721)
Google still sells ads, doesn't it?
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Re:ᚣ the Rune Programming Language by namkt on Sunday November 27, 2022 @06:11AM (#33762139)
Didn't they originally claim to never show ads in search given that it is in direct opposition to search results quality? Back in the days when Pagerank was hot.
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Re:ᚣ the Rune Programming Language by AlotOfReading on Sunday November 27, 2022 @02:19PM (#33765746)
That was in the original pagerank publications. Google had lots of other early attempts to make money that avoided advertising (like the search appliance [0]), but the firehose of money from ads dwarfed anything else they could ever find and that early Google didn't last long.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Appliance

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Re:ᚣ the Rune Programming Language by ithkuil on Sunday November 27, 2022 @02:19PM (#33765747)
Was that a "business commitment" or a "user commitment"?
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