Unity’s new pricing: A wake-up call on the importance of open source

Issue #1256 — September 16, 2023

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Unity’s new pricing: A wake-up call on the importance of open source ramatak.com \| points: 654 \| comments: 655

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Unity has seemingly silently removed its GitHub repo that tracks ToS changes gamerbraves.com \| points: 652 \| comments: 172

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Willingham sends Fables into the public domain billwillingham.substack.com \| points: 608 \| comments: 224

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My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank’s website csvbase.com \| points: 504 \| comments: 160

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Find my cat: open-source Cat Tracker findmycat.io \| points: 495 \| comments: 306

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Instead of collaborating or supporting me, Google stole my idea github.com \| points: 473 \| comments: 90

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Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands theguardian.com \| points: 450 \| comments: 340

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B612 Font Family b612-font.com \| points: 421 \| comments: 87

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iNaturalist strikes out on its own baynature.org \| points: 380 \| comments: 75

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Linear code is more readable blog.separateconcerns.com \| points: 365 \| comments: 339

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TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts theguardian.com \| points: 344 \| comments: 285

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Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? (2003) vole.wtf \| points: 292 \| comments: 136

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Akiyoshi’s Illusion Pages ritsumei.ac.jp \| points: 286 \| comments: 42

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How does Linux start a process iq.thc.org \| points: 255 \| comments: 27

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Shrinkflation Tracker shrinkflation.io \| points: 245 \| comments: 148

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Godot Development Fund fund.godotengine.org \| points: 232 \| comments: 28

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Plex to block all servers hosted at Hetzner links.plex.tv \| points: 214 \| comments: 159

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Google to pay $93M in settlement over deceptive location tracking theguardian.com \| points: 204 \| comments: 64

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MenuetOS menuetos.net \| points: 200 \| comments: 48

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California passes bill to make it easier to delete data from data brokers latimes.com \| points: 172 \| comments: 61

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