alt Hacker NewsWhy do you assume Mitchell is just doing this without any research or reasoning? From what I know of him, it’s surely the opposite.
Your laundry list of everything that might possibly go wrong with an open software project is not exactly useful. There is no legal structure that can protect from all bad actors forever.
But the good news is that if you hate this, you can fork the code and set up your own perfect legal entity to solve all the problems only you can see! Enjoy!
I would ask that you more carefully and neutrally reread my comment. Your questions do not match up with what I actually wrote. You seem to have injected your own uncharitable interpretations rather than commenting on what I wrote? This wastes everyone’s time and is against HN guidelines.
I don’t appreciate your sarcastic and snarky final penultimate sentence. If you reread my comment, you probably can see that I would agree there is no one perfect legal entity.
> Why do you assume Mitchell is just doing this without any research or reasoning?
I said nothing of the kind.
> Your laundry list of everything that might possibly go wrong with an open software project is not exactly useful.
I didn’t make any such laundry list (or even a list).
Saying “… that only you can see. Enjoy!” at the end of this is more than unkind; it is a jerk move.
Taken as a whole, the comment above isn’t just uncharitable; it mischaracterizes my comment completely and consistently.