On: Urbit: a personal cloud computer

[chops]

Code on Github: https://github.com/urbit/urbit

This seems crazy ambitious on its own, and add to it that it's public domain. Very curious where this will be headed.

[krick → chops]

Could you please explain what being "public domain" adds to it?

[jevinskie → krick]

It enables use (personal and especially corporate) with as little licensing fretting as possible.

[kelnos → jevinskie]

Except that some jurisdictions in the world don't have the concept of public domain, so, in those places, this code is legally in a very weird place. It's much better (IMO) to assert copyright, and then release under the most permissive license possible.

[urbit → kelnos]

Yes, some people have made this criticism. We'll be thinking about it.

[krick → jevinskie]

It just sounded as if being public domain somehow makes project more ambitious (that is, means to be more difficult to complete than if it wasn't public domain), so I probably just misunderstood.