grumpydba

> Small native binaries don't seem like much of an advantage when writing servers.

However when deploying server binaries it's a substancial advantage. End users like them. Ops like them.

They never said that they had to use c because go is not a systems language, so your assertion looks wrong. They wanted to avoid using unsafe. In c everything is unsafe by the way, so it makes it less of a systems language?

> GPLv2 and v3 gave hobbyists, students, and anti-corporate hackers a means to feel as though their work resists the evil empire of the software industry, while in fact serving it up with unpaid work product.

I got linux and the GNU userland for free. I used it to learn and it got me a job. Of course I contribute to GPL projects. It's not unpaid work, it's paid in code.

It's funny that he chose mongodb as an example. They require a contributor to sign the CLA and give all ownership of the code to mongodb. This is effectively unpaid work, more than the GPL.

These new unfree licenses are the most restrictive the VC friendly lawyers can think of to maintain an usurped "open source" moniker while trying to push clients to buy commercial licenses.

To stay in France, it's a bit as if you said the cathedrals construction was a total failure basing your judgment on the Beauvais cathedral which also suffered of the second system effect.

What percentage of the waste is radiating for 10000 years? And how radioactive is it? Without facts, precise facts to back it up your statement looks irrational indeed.

I don't judge a software on an alpha release.

Because of the irrational fear of nuclear.

It's the first of its generation and is quite a failure on many aspects. It's not representative of all the nuclear reactors in France, far from it. Thus it is quite insignificant.

That's why the gpl without CLA remains the best collaborative platform. That's a lesson for me, Stallman was right, as they say.

Sure, but those are only weasel words and blatant lies. Talking about "Commercializing Open-Source", when you are in fact closing your source code is dishonest. And I think HN needs honesty. Even with some bluntness.

A paragraph of this announcement is literally titled "Commercializing Open-Source". This is a blatant lie.