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My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]

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932 points sohzm | 2 comments | 04 Jul 25 02:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.423s | source
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Disposal8433 ◴[04 Jul 25 04:03 UTC] No.44461043[source]▶
And it has the same fake excuse as usual "Since this was our first OSS project, we didn’t realize at first."

He sure discovered this new open source thing and it's very confusing. It's not like it's almost 40 years old at that point. I'll never understand people who lie like toddlers.

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h4ck_th3_pl4n3t ◴[04 Jul 25 06:57 UTC] No.44461821[source]▶
This incompetence excuse puts YC in a bad spotlight too, because it makes them look like they are funding people with exact zero software development experience.
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pghatedphones ◴[04 Jul 25 07:41 UTC] No.44462131[source]▶
Isn't YC supposed to offer guidance and sage advice, not just be a cash machine for naive young developers?
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thiht ◴[04 Jul 25 09:22 UTC] No.44462791[source]▶
They're also supposed to do their due diligence before investing.
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1. ignoramous ◴[04 Jul 25 09:33 UTC] No.44462886[source]▶
Paul Graham once wrote that startups are pretty hard to game unlike academia for top grades or a big company for promotions.

In a twist of fate, YC itself seems to be gamed like those broken companies.

  So this is the third counterintuitive thing to remember about startups: starting a startup is where gaming the system stops working. Gaming the system may continue to work if you go to work for a big company. Depending on how broken the company is, you can succeed by sucking up to the right people, giving the impression of productivity, and so on.
https://www.paulgraham.com/before.html / https://archive.vn/UKky8
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2. jltsiren ◴[04 Jul 25 10:41 UTC] No.44463299[source]▶
When you institutionalize an ad hoc process, you turn it into a system that can be gamed. YC did that for startups, and it was already pretty obvious in 2014 when Paul Graham wrote that essay. Every other government was claiming to support startups and that their corner of the world would become the next Silicon Valley.