HN is moderated! That means humans making interpretations and judgment calls. There's no way to make that 'open' in the sense I imagine you mean, but we try our best to be 'open' in the sense of being clear about what we're doing and answering questions about particular cases.
What we don't do is formalize everything, because a) that's impossible and b) what a nightmare it would be to try.
Sounds to me like an opportunity for a dual trademark business model. Similarly to a dual license model where you receive the software with a restrictive license like AGPL whose only purpose is to make the software undesirable to companies and a paid permissive licene like MIT you could also use an undesirable trademark for the free version and a professional trademark that companies are willing to associate themselves with.
"lol" is the only response to this. fine then, don't use it. why did you even click on this story?
it must be tough being so sensitive, let along being so irrational about judging a piece of tech on actual merit. big diff between cockroachdb and genital warts
This sort of reply seems so ludicrous to me. It's a bug. How can you guys use the net, knowing what spider-related metaphors lie hidden in its tangled web?
That connotation seems obvious but I didn't pick up on it until months after I heard about CockroachDB. For one, a minority of people who know about cockroaches know about their resilience. For two, people who _do_ know that still know that cockroaches are disgusting. The reptile brain is going to react with revulsion even if the higher brain finds the metaphor.
It's not called the World Wide Puss Filled Spider Bite, it's called the World Wide Web, I honestly never thought of the spider connotation till you mentioned it.
