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by da39a3ee 816 days ago
Just saying something isn't open source isn't a valid criticism, and it's not an interesting contribution to HN. You could say the same about any software at all that's not open source; it has no positive contribution to the discussion of this piece of software.
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I don’t like this trend of closed source projects releasing on GitHub personally. It makes it difficult to determine the license (which is important) at a glance.

Even some projects that offer only APIs on GitHub make it seem like they’re more open source than they are, putting the whole project info into the readme. Some people care about visibility into the software that runs on their machine.