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N8n is not open source and your project is gaslighting its users

by wilsonfiifi on 9/11/22, 8:32 AM with 13 comments

• by breton on 9/11/22, 11:22 AM

  The author of that bug report is active on this site and participated in the discussion of the topic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21191676.

  The tone of the bug report is unacceptable and enough to avoid any interaction with its author.

• by janober on 9/11/22, 12:48 PM

  Founder of n8n here. For the people that do not have multiple hours to read the whole thread with its almost 378 comments (some of them quite long). It actually resulted in the creation of fair-code (https://faircode.io/) and later the Sustainable Use License.

  Here a more concise version of the fair-code background: https://blog.n8n.io/fair-code-for-sustainable-open-source-al...

  and here information about the Sustainable Use License switch: https://blog.n8n.io/announcing-new-sustainable-use-license/

• by fordsmith on 9/11/22, 11:32 AM

  Like another commenter I am not surprised by the author. I do not recall where, but I immediately recognized the name from somewhere.

  The tone and accusations to me appear to be inappropriate. While they may be correct, it is just insane to be so accusational. I find it not productive and in turn makes the community worse off in the first place.

• by corobo on 9/11/22, 11:28 AM

  "Gaslighting? Bet it's Drew"

  I was not actually expecting to be right haha. Dude's far too intense sometimes.

• by phoe-krk on 9/11/22, 12:13 PM

  Gosh, I got kind of shocked when I saw myself in there (my own comment is the second one in the original thread). I already forgot about the whole affair.

  Also, [2019]