Wherein it is pointed out that Hacker News is proprietary software.

jcl · on March 3, 2015

Really? https://github.com/wting/hackernews

squeaky-clean · on March 3, 2015

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".

vonmoltke · on March 3, 2015

https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/copyright

jimktrains2 · on March 3, 2015

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.

CHY872 · on March 3, 2015

You sure about that? Your system will be full of proprietary firmwares, drivers, etc.

jimktrains2 · on March 3, 2015

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.