Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42022773

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Care to expand on this for the curious?

FWIW my biz address doesn't have PO box in the address. It is re-used though (which I know because when I tried to register a DUNS number with Apple the first problem I ran into was another business was already registered at the same address)

> This is sort of how I feel about conservatives.

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Reading through these comments, I'm reminded of a pop psychology book that I read that essentially said "never try to take someone away, no matter how small, it is perceived as a much larger loss than it is".

If Hashicorp had started with this new license in the first place, do we really think they wouldn't have had the business success that they've had? We'll never know, but my guess is that a license that says "competitors can't copy us" would seem totally reasonable to folks contributing, and irrelevant to customers that have a problem to solve. Someone correct me if I'm wrong here, I want to understand this obviously passionate response.

(Since I've commented a couple times on this let me also say I'm not a hashicorp employee nor know anyone there)

I think it has more to do with the proximity to money. A banker is close to lots of money moving around, and in a position to craft some scheme to extract parts of it. This basically applies to all of finance. The closer you are, the more opportunities to extract large amounts. A nurse is far removed from the flow of money.

Sounds like a business opportunity

I've personally struggled to test https locally [1], and I'm sure others have too. The next time I have the problem, though, I'll save myself the configuration and spend $19.

[1] https://www.louzell.com/notes/serve_https_on_localhost.html

That certainly rings true. But, I also think it's true that all the information you need to assess a business is right there in the public filing. So, at least in theory, enough information is out there to let the VCs keep holding the bag. Right?

  # this evaluates entirely at compile time!
  if (crypt('uh','oh') eq 'ohPnjpYtoi1NU') {print "ok 1\n";} else {print "not ok 1\n";}

  # this doesn't.
  $uh = 'uh';
  if (crypt($uh,'oh') eq 'ohPnjpYtoi1NU') {print "ok 2\n";} else {print "not ok 2\n";}