Comment by Balgair | Hacker News Reader

Comment by Balgair | Hacker News Reader

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First, congrats on the Beschizza link. This is the first time that I've seen a direct HN link from BB. Guess we should talk about HN less, yall, Eternal September and whatnot.

Second, this example is an illustration of 'Stallman is right'.

By that, I mean, DB is acting as back-up and thumb-drive for a lot of people that don't pay a lot for those servers. As pointed out, DB can't actually support themselves by doing this, thus DB is squirming away from what made them popular and towards the money. As such, DB is going to abandon those people that made them what they are and go towards F500s and the like, because money.

I get it, but Stallman is right: "Now that corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance or change in technology is an opening for them to further restrict or mistreat its users."

Here, DB is trying to fork from what is good for the users (backups and thumbdrives) to what is good for DB and the F500s.

I don't understand what "First, congrats on the Beschizza link. This is the first time that I've seen a direct HN link from BB. Guess we should talk about HN less, yall, Eternal September and whatnot." means in the context of my comment.

https://boingboing.net/2019/06/14/new-dropbox-uses-half-a-gi...

In the 80s and early 90s, when the vast majority of people with access to the internet were university students, there would be an influx of new users every September to usenet discussion groups--users who didn't understand the rules and conventions of the space. September was the time when every newsgroup would go to shit for a while, and we'd have to educate the newbies. "Eternal September" was a term coined when internet access started arriving for everybody in the mid 90s; there was a constant influx of new users.

It would seem that the commenter above thinks that HN is not that well-known, and getting linked from boingboing is going to lead to an influx of newbies. I think that's pretty silly, personally; these days HN probably has a significantly wider readership than boingboing.

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