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Re:We Need to Save What Made Linux and FOSS Possible by detaro on Thursday May 09, 2019 @04:59AM (#19866527)
> If WordPress goes there's five million other blogging platforms I can switch to.

Have you done a full migration of a grown Wordpress blog to another system, without breaking stuff? It's not something you do on a weekend or two. Changing away from a tool that holds lots of data and configuration is expensive.

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Re:We Need to Save What Made Linux and FOSS Possible by kazinator on Friday May 10, 2019 @02:26PM (#19880738)
Or, regarding his other remark, a migration of hundreds of thousands of lines of code from gcc to something else.
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