Three of the top 10 viewed stories on the Postโs website Sunday were articles written by Post staffers outraged by Bezosโ decision. The top one was humor columnist Alexandra Petriโs piece, headlined, โIt has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president.โ
At first I wasโฆ wow, no shit! Open source Winamp!
But then I went through the Github issues. As someone else put it, โThis has got to be the most embarrassing open-sourcing iโve seen to date.โ. The licensing is a mess, the coverup is a mess. By tomorrow this is going to be as viral as Twitterโs โopen sourcingโ of its recommendation algorithm they did last year.