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Re:Etherpad includes banned (on Google code) software JSMin by kelnos on Saturday December 19, 2009 @09:49PM (#1005638)
How is that evil from anyone's perspective? You released code under a license that said people could do certain things with it. So they did those certain things with it, and you think that's evil? Huh?

(Of course, if people are using the software in ways at odds with your license, you have legal recourse, in which case... why aren't you taking legal action?)

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Re:Etherpad includes banned (on Google code) software JSMin by xal on Saturday December 19, 2009 @10:27PM (#1005688)
There are a ton of things you can do with our code that isn't actively marketing to our exact customer base. According to numbers we got recently more then 30% of all deployed commercial rails apps use ActiveMerchant which probably means tens of thousands. Only a handful are e-commerce systems.
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Re:Etherpad includes banned (on Google code) software JSMin by kelnos on Sunday December 20, 2009 @04:28PM (#1006592)
Sure, but how is that "evil"?
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