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Re:Excerpt from ‘Flash Boys’ about Serge Aleynikov and Goldm... by Dolimiter on Saturday April 12, 2014 @12:37PM (#7578305)
But the headline says:

"Goldman Sachs Steals Open Source, Jails Coder"

Which is a lie.

It depresses me that even HackerNews upvotes headlines they know are untrue, if it suits the cultural narrative.

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Re:Excerpt from ‘Flash Boys’ about Serge Aleynikov and Goldm... by tomp on Saturday April 12, 2014 @01:02PM (#7578388)
The headline is a lie, but the other part - Goldman did not steal open source, because what is being given for free can not be stolen. (Moreover, if they didn't redistribute the code (which I assume they didn't, based on the article), they didn't break the OS licence either.)
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Re:Excerpt from ‘Flash Boys’ about Serge Aleynikov and Goldm... by DanBC on Saturday April 12, 2014 @12:42PM (#7578322)
It depresses me if people vote on headlines at all. People should be ignoring the headline - which is always flawed - and voting on the article.
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Re:Excerpt from ‘Flash Boys’ about Serge Aleynikov and Goldm... by dfc on Saturday April 12, 2014 @03:13PM (#7578827)
It depresses me that you are up/down voting headlines and not the content. And keep in mind that HN has a no title change policy.
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