HTTP/2 301 server: nginx date: Sat, 27 Dec 2025 13:54:21 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 location: https://webmink.com/comments/feed/ strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com vary: accept, content-type, cookie last-modified: Sat, 27 Dec 2025 13:54:21 GMT etag: "82472602d1b7660f0afe1c2064005adb" x-redirect-by: WordPress x-ac: 2.bom _dca MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=MISS;dur=335.0 HTTP/2 200 server: nginx date: Sat, 27 Dec 2025 13:54:22 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 vary: Accept-Encoding x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com vary: accept, content-type, cookie last-modified: Sat, 27 Dec 2025 13:54:22 GMT etag: W/"c65879c15a7940cd75ad35103dfa9b39" content-encoding: gzip x-ac: 3.bom _dca MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=MISS;dur=346.0 https://webmink.com Simon Phipps' views on technology, politics, music and more - with a few good photos too Sun, 13 Jul 2025 22:29:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.com/ https://webmink.com/essays/h-264/#comment-28151 Sun, 13 Jul 2025 22:29:43 +0000 https://webmink.com/#comment-28151 I appreciate the detailed explanation of how MPEG-LA’s licensing works.

]]> https://webmink.com/essays/open-by-rule/#comment-28149 Sat, 14 Dec 2024 09:50:48 +0000 https://webmink.com/?page_id=3014#comment-28149 […] recently, and someone I remember as always having fought the good fight over things like authentic open source community governance, I thought you of all people (but also the Open Source but not necessarily AI luminaries on […]

]]> https://webmink.com/essays/open-core/#comment-28147 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 18:40:31 +0000 https://webmink.com/#comment-28147 […] Phipps; “Open core is bad for you“; Wild […]

]]> https://webmink.com/essays/causality/#comment-27651 Thu, 15 Sep 2022 02:13:33 +0000 https://webmink.com/#comment-27651 […] worldview, regardless of the indeniable fact that these worldviews differ on the character of causality. I am homosexual to understand their ideological variations and like enjoyable their shared intent […]

]]> https://webmink.com/essays/monetisation/#comment-27650 Wed, 14 Sep 2022 23:13:28 +0000 https://webmink.com/#comment-27650 […] you are going to even favor to defend your liberty. Begin present wouldn’t inherently want monetizing; deciding on to manufacture so is bigger one among many alternate methods beginning as much as […]

]]> https://webmink.com/essays/ppv/#comment-27535 Wed, 08 Dec 2021 19:21:36 +0000 https://webmink.com/#comment-27535 […] project, and move to a commercially supported version when you decide it’s time – paying at the point of value, as Simon Phipps has put […]

]]> https://webmink.com/essays/reptiles/#comment-27317 Thu, 25 Feb 2021 13:37:28 +0000 https://webmink.com/?page_id=505#comment-27317 […] we considered before, corporations are not a person, but are rather a vehicle for the collective expression of the vision of many individuals, showing […]

]]> https://webmink.com/essays/reptiles/#comment-27009 Mon, 01 Jun 2020 17:46:05 +0000 https://webmink.com/?page_id=505#comment-27009 […] Microsoft just stuck to the obvious truth that they hated Linux — and by association the whole open source movement — and said it openly. Behind the scenes, all the tech businesses were taking what they could, contributing what they had to and attacking what they couldn’t, but Microsoft was honest about it. That honesty bought them deep hatred from some advocates that even today is unquenchable despite the growing evidence it’s residual bigotry. My concern for those who say they still can’t trust Microsoft now is more that they believe that can trust its peers. […]

]]> https://webmink.com/essays/open-by-rule/#comment-26204 Fri, 09 Aug 2019 17:15:19 +0000 https://webmink.com/?page_id=3014#comment-26204 […] Simon explores this in his Webmink Articles,  The Sentinel Principle and more effectively in The Open by Rule Benchmark. […]

]]> https://webmink.com/essays/reptiles/#comment-25756 Fri, 31 Aug 2018 12:12:52 +0000 https://webmink.com/?page_id=505#comment-25756 […] ist daran zu denken, dass Großkonzerne trotz öffentlichen Commitments für die Open-Source-Philosophie nie aus Mitgefühl od…. Unter einer Open-Source-Lizenz veröffentlichte Software kann kein Unternehmen wieder […]

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