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Re:Ask HN: Should Qt be considered in the place of electron? on Thursday January 17, 2019 @09:21AM (#18930916)
Phasing out is the same as sunsetting, i.e., terminating: https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/sunsetting

From the first post, I assumed the commenter meant something like, "in Qt 6 QWidgets will stop working", which is insane.

Re:Ask HN: Should Qt be considered in the place of electron? on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @06:07PM (#18926479)
QWidgets are being phased out? What???
Re:MongoDB should not be part of a stable release on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @05:02PM (#18925900)
Discussion about the SSPL and the DFSG: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=915537
Re:New logo on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @04:33PM (#18925540)
>Firstly, it’s not change for the sake of change.

Actually yes, it is.

Why not just use Tor?
Re:Illinois Bet on Video Gambling and Lost on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @12:58PM (#18923133)
On an unrelated note, as a non-American, it's stunning to see how wide those roads are, how big those parkings are, and the amount of SUVs and pickup trucks. I mean, that's kind of the American stereotype, but it calls my attention to see that it's actually true. (Speaking about the last link in particular.)
Yeah, no. No matter how much romanticism you want to throw at it, this kind of defensiveness is simple tribalism.
Re:MongoDB removed from RHEL 8 beta due to license on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @07:47AM (#18920324)
If the new MongoDB licence is non-free, the chances that Debian will include that software in their repos are nil.
Re:MongoDB removed from RHEL 8 beta due to license on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @07:30AM (#18920220)
>Going with the maintainer's repo means that you trust the maintainer with providing security updates for the version you have installed or you trust them with providing a useable upgrade path.

Why should that be a problem if you use the official repo, handled by MongoDB themselves?