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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something? by stn_za on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @05:21AM (#44809727)
COCs never became popular though, business types enforced them and hackers fought against and lost
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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something? by thrance on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @06:55AM (#44810371)
Not hackers, more like mentally ill trolls that fought for the right to say racial slurs on github issues.
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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something? by stn_za on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @07:22AM (#44810544)
lol, github wasn't even a thing back then.

Not trolls, people who didn't let words hurt their fee-fees. See Linus's response where he literally told someone to kill themselves.

It was a better time.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something? by thrance on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @08:27AM (#44811069)
What was a better time? When injunctions to suicide were socially acceptable?
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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something? by DonHopkins on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @12:22PM (#44814132)
Why is it that you "fuck your feelings" trolls are always the ones who get their panties in a bunch when somebody else fucks YOUR feelings?
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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something? by stn_za on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @03:11PM (#44816328)
huh?
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