Obviously not me, but I remember John Carmack regretting releasing Doom and Quak...

bsimpson · 2025-08-06T05:55:19 1754459719

Look into toybox. It's a tiny reimplementation of GNU coreutils that ships in Android.

The author was on the core team for another project in that space (I think busybox). He saw first hand how copyleft sounds good but ends up being lots of friction with no practical benefit, and vowed to public domain all his projects after that. BSD0 is him giving a name to a public domain grant so OSS people could recognize it.

lproven · 2025-08-06T09:26:38 1754472398

Rob Landley, and the original Busybox author was Bruce Perens, who with Eric Raymond co-popularised Christine Peterson's new term "open source".

https://lwn.net/Articles/202120/

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lproven · 2025-08-07T13:28:14 1754573294

> Great Slate fundraiser Thomas Ptacek

Who is of course a frequent HN poster, one of the very top rated on the site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek

I remain strongly suspicious that this column of his is in fact a long and convoluted troll:

https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/

That got about 2.5K upvotes here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44163063

bsimpson · 2025-08-06T15:23:59 1754493839

I think this is the talk I was referring to:

https://youtu.be/MkJkyMuBm3g?si=8OfCdRmS2kmGjIbx