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Re:Pandora to Buy Rdio Assets for $75M, Rdio Files Ch.11, Wi... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @03:39AM (#10579870)
You have to keep in mind that this is a kind of game. Almost no one truly, really hates the other product. People don't get into fistfights over Vim vs. Emacs. It's just a community joke.

So for instance I'm in the IRC camp of group communication, and I'll go to great length to use it over Slack, but if you really need me to use Slack and it makes sense, then I'll use Slack. But I will be doing cynical jokes so that you won't forget I'm in the other camp :P.

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Re:Pandora to Buy Rdio Assets for $75M, Rdio Files Ch.11, Wi... by rtpg on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @03:58AM (#10579931)
>People don't get into fistfights over Vim vs. Emacs. It's just a community joke.

Unfortunately, this can get out of hand, see systemd death threats. Hope people will learn to be nicer on the internet now that the general population is on it.

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Re:Pandora to Buy Rdio Assets for $75M, Rdio Files Ch.11, Wi... by Dylan16807 on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @06:09AM (#10580337)
That's not a product rivalry, that's a deeper upset with how systemd is handling things.

Nobody thinks vim is trying to take over the editor space.

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Re:Pandora to Buy Rdio Assets for $75M, Rdio Files Ch.11, Wi... by EwanToo on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @07:25AM (#10580600)
But I would hope you'd still think that death threats over it are utterly ridiculous, and unacceptable?
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Re:Pandora to Buy Rdio Assets for $75M, Rdio Files Ch.11, Wi... by Dylan16807 on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @11:00AM (#10581887)
Yes.
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Re:Pandora to Buy Rdio Assets for $75M, Rdio Files Ch.11, Wi... by ubercore on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @01:04PM (#10582835)
I actually had a real-deal power struggle with an employee once about using hipchat instead of IRC. They refused to use hipchat, then left the company eventually. So it's not a game for everyone.
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Re:Pandora to Buy Rdio Assets for $75M, Rdio Files Ch.11, Wi... by paublyrne on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @04:04AM (#10579946)
People do get into fistfights over sporting rivalries, though, not to mention religious ones.
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Re:Pandora to Buy Rdio Assets for $75M, Rdio Files Ch.11, Wi... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @04:08AM (#10579955)
I know. I just haven't seen this dynamic go that far in the tech sector yet.
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