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Comment Re:Embassy Wi-fi? (Score 0, Flamebait) 232

First of all, we already broadcast radio and TV in the form of the BBC and other foreign satellite channels into Iran.

Secondly, the Iranian embassy in the US can broadcast to us if they like. I doubt they'd get many followers.

I presume you are also the kind of person who would stand idly by while your neighbor beats their child. Thankfully others do not suffer from the same moral cowardice.

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Submission + - How to convert social network to open source?

sparkydevil writes: "A few years ago I started a social network called Crisscross that, amongst other things, interlinks users' likes and dislikes about anything. Our main feature is a cool drill-down people search interface. Due to other commitments I wasn't able to keep funding it with cash, so I made an agreement with some programmers to work for equity. Now those programmers are busy with their own work and I still don't have extra cash so I'm thinking about converting the project to open source. There doesn't seem to be an open source social network so perhaps it could be interesting. The project needs around 200 hours work to get it up to production level, mainly to fix interface bugs, and improve the core date storage system. It's a long story but the beta version I had was deleted by accident so the current site is more of an alpha level and has many annoying minor bugs, but you should be able to see what we are trying to do. Questions: 1) how do I go about making the project open source legally and technically 2) is it possible to keep some elements proprietary (for example the search interface code?) 3) how much management work it would take on my part to oversee the project compared with working with a couple of programmers 4) is it possible to retain some ownership or interest for existing shareholders (about 10%). Thank you for your comments and advice."

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