Stopped and listened to a few tracks, too. Thanks for the moment of zen! Let's catch up soon.

I subscribe to the timeless adage: If you can't spot the dumbest participant in your first half hour of the Signal chat, then you are the dumbest participant.

Thanks for writing this, Steven. It's a hard position to take, because everyone will read it as attacking their home team, but really you're just rooting for a better game.

Maybe the rule of thumb should be: don't invest into any community beyond what you would be comfortable losing if it went away.

This is largely why we have foundations to govern software communities independent of any single entity's interests.

Make the unwritten community contract written.

I can see the distinction you're making now, and that's a fair and valid point.

It's not that the code itself was taken away (it can't be). It was that the community and ecosystem around that code was effectively taken away.

And some people invested as much in that community as they did the code.

Joking aside, it’s Carvana but from Amazon.

Shoppers can customize a new car’s trim, color, and interior, get a trade-in valuation, and choose payment options like full payment or financing. Most paperwork is e-signed on Amazon, and buyers can schedule pickup at a Hyundai dealer.

In fact, I don't know of a OSI-approved license that can be retroactively revoked. It seems impossible to take back a OSI-licensed gift.

Personally I like copyleft licenses more than ever now though, so you can't even revoke the forward-looking gift of giving back.

I don't care one way or the other about Redis, never used it and likely never will—but the BSD licensed version of Redis won't and can't ever be taken away.

Indeed, that original gift lives on as hard fork of the BSD version at github.com/valkey-io/va....

It's literally nothing like that.

I was in New York for Hurricane Sandy so I am definitely battening down the hatches here.

TOTALLY

i think it needs to be a screen in the signup process that says

EVERYTHING IS PUBLIC
and posts can’t actually be deleted because it’s on a blockchain-like distributed ledger

[ ] I understand

Which takes us directly back to the Albigensian heresy's consolamentum—if a member of the perfecti strays, all the converts he or she gave the consolamentum to are retroactively un-sacralized. Every social network becomes a theology problem in the end.