As far as I can tell it is AGPL licensed PHP code, you can download the code, run it, and modify/fork it freely. Code is open source, but it is not developed in the open.

I'm sure I've spend less time downloading the zip, opening it, and seeing a "agpl.txt" file than you did writting that comment.

I don't see a link to it in the article. I've only noticed where it is after another commenter linked to it.

It says open source in the title.

Turns out it is open source.

"Interesting"

Like... why did you expect it to not be open source

“I’m contradicting the author without validating my claim. And it’s super easy to validate my claim, but I just didn’t. When confronted, I complain that it takes greater than 10 seconds to verify my claim.”

This is curious behavior. There’s lots of incorrect and misleading articles. But I try to bring up questions only when exhausting reasonable investigations.

It definitely could be easier.

I searched for “open3A” via Google (not ddg, but if I got errors on ddg, I would try “!open3a”) and the first hit is a German site. I don’t speak German, but I saw the download link [0] and downloaded the first zip and viewed the license.

I spent more time downloading the 4mb zip than clicking on stuff.

It’s not the author’s job to make answering my questions easy. It is my job to not make easily verifiable claims without trying.

I’ve dealt with lots of projects that are crappy about licenses and frequently have to download the tarball to look for licenses, just to check if I can actually use.

The author could make this easier, but she didn’t. That doesn’t mean I should go into attack mode because other people make bad claims. (And I suppose I give up after 10 seconds and don’t want to stick around for 20 seconds)

I also noticed that author doesn’t even link to her project. Maybe it’s because her project is in German and the blog is English. But I’d rather have more posts like this with whatever time the author can spend, than wait for it to sit in draft while unimportant details are finally added.

[0] https://www.open3a.de/page-Download

My intention with this blog post was only to write down my story. No marketing intended :)

Thanks, I thought it was kind of refreshing how you weren’t linking to your site and liked to see content that didn’t just seem like seo or a sales pitch.

I have no need for doing sales pitches anymore :D

Fascinating. I consider myself to have reasonable mastery of my tools and I usually pick good tools for my purposes.

Here's a re-enactment of how I detected the license: https://i.imgur.com/Gr4xMT5.mp4

It's near trivially easy.

Funny to see you do that on my website :D

Haha so cool!

Did you record that with lice cap?

I used the Quicktime Player screen-record feature in OS X. Though thanks for the rec.

Here's another one I like when I want my face and audio in: Screenity https://github.com/alyssaxuu/screenity (very easy code to work with too).

There is a trail of links from the article that will bring you to the download. Click on the author's name to see their profile, click on the project to see the project's profile, click on the link to the project website, then click on the link to the downloads page. While the trail is a bit much, it is important to keep in mind the article was an account of the author's experiences and it published on a portal for indie developers. A direct link may not have been seen as appropriate given the context.

While I agree with companies misrepresenting their products as open source as being a problem and believe the AGPL should have been mentioned, I do not see how the point about open source being hard to sell as being relevant. Not only are there are success stories in the world of open source, but the author made their success sound modest.

Basicaly you are just explaining that you've just done a very quick search. Fact that Duckduckgo doesn't gives the right answer an the first page is not an excuse. Actually, DDG printed a lots of comparison pages of business application for me, so I changed my search string, tried elsewhere, searched on indiehackers.com where she writed the post. This is more completely natural that becoming suspicious from nothing.

BTW typing only "open3A" in DDG gaves me the right answers all on the first page.

A book club for startups. It could be interesting, but how would it solve the problem of prioritising what to read, if everybody is expected to read the same?

OP here. I think having forums, where a book is discussed chapter by chapter, could help. You could pick whatever book is already being discussed, and join the discussion after you'd read that chapter.

There might also be the opportunity for people to self-organize around a particular book.

Authentication via third parties are not an inherently Bad Thing. Mozilla Persona shows how third party authentication can be done, without risk of user base hijacking,

While it's true that Mozilla can't maintain a list of what services their users are using, there are still security implications to using Persona. Mozilla (or anyone who with their private key) can still enable access any user account on any Persona enabled site.

Persona is perfect for blogs, but using it for a service people may be paying for, or handles any private user information (postal address, private messages or posts on a forum etc) is a bad idea.

Demo page at: http://syntensity.com/static/sql.html

See more details here: http://badassjs.com/post/18857332551/sql-js-sqlite-compiled-...

Unfortunately, this way of stating unqualified arguments as basis for reasoning is quite prevalent on the Internet.

Keeping it to node.js bashing, this guy takes the discussion to a slightly lower level: http://youtube.com/watch?v=1e1zzna-dNw

Ha, I liked that. But slagging aside, are the points he makes baseless?

How is that lower level ?

He tries to discredit node by taking apart the copy on the front page of nodejs.org.

It's all conjecture and ad hominem.

It would have been a bold move, if Damien had left the "Couch" name with Apache CouchDB, and released his CouchBase product under another name. Also, this would have liberated him from having to distance himself from CouchDB, Erlang and Apache, when promoting his new product.

CouchDB is dead, long live Apache CouchDB.

I agree with what I think that you and other people here are saying: the Apache CouchDB project will continue to be supported by a good community so there is very little technical risk for using CouchDB. BTW, I think that datastore as a service companies like Cloudant, MongoHQ (and many other good companies) are a great convenience, but for self hosting, I wonder why anyone really needs support for CouchDB, MongoDB, etc. unless they have very large deployments.

I think it's a little unfair to lump Cloudant in with MongoHQ and label them a "datastore as a service" company. You should check out what they've done with BigCouch and their annoucement today about how they will be committing the BigCouch changes back into CouchDB proper.

Yeah, it doesn't work in Firefox :-/ See issue on Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=656099

Source available at: https://gist.github.com/1388372

Announcement: https://twitter.com/#!/kaptencybear/status/13929274842664550...

There are more WebGL and other experiments on the same site: http://aerotwist.com/lab/