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Re:Mickey Mouse and Batman will soon be public domain by incompatible on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @05:48PM (#18802905)
I don't think they are completely meaningless: Wikipedia manages to give a definition. However, I think they are often misused, misunderstood, and not very useful in practice.
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Re:Mickey Mouse and Batman will soon be public domain by mindcrime on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @05:59PM (#18802952)
OK, to be fair, maybe I should have said "almost totally meaningless". But I still contend that they are terms that convey very little intrinsic meaning, and have become pejoratives more than anything else.
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Re:Mickey Mouse and Batman will soon be public domain by incompatible on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @06:46PM (#18803162)
They can be used as pejoratives once "extreme" is added.
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Re:Mickey Mouse and Batman will soon be public domain by shmerl on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @05:49PM (#18802911)
Which is to say, they are useless :)
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