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Re:Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity by jimktrains2 on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @11:41AM (#9138628)
You mean that proprietary code? No, I avoid non F/OSS at all costs.
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Re:Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity by politician on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @12:11PM (#9138872)
Wherein it is pointed out that Hacker News is proprietary software.
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Re:Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity by jcl on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @12:20PM (#9138939)
Really? https://github.com/wting/hackernews
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Re:Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity by squeaky-clean on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @02:52PM (#9140197)
Where is the license file? Just because the code can be viewed does not make it legal to use or that it is "free" or "open source".
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Re:Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity by vonmoltke on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @02:59PM (#9140259)
https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/copyright
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Re:Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity by jimktrains2 on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @12:20PM (#9138940)
Hacker News is a website (so even with their code being open-sourced, I cannot verify what exactly they're running anyway), not software I'm running (JS aside).

The firmware on the routers between me and the server are proprietary, and there is nothing I can do about that.

I can choose not to run proprietary software without having to not use the web.

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Re:Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity by CHY872 on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @01:15PM (#9139443)
You sure about that? Your system will be full of proprietary firmwares, drivers, etc.
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Re:Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity by jimktrains2 on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @02:11PM (#9139867)
I avoid it as much as I possibly can. I don't know what more to tell you. I never said I'm proprietary code-free, but just that I avoid it at all costs.

Hell, I've recently been forced to install proprietary code to work with government generated data. Such a mess.

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