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Re:How to support open-source software and stay sane by scarejunba on Monday July 01, 2019 @03:07PM (#20328670)
What an incredibly pointless thing to argue about. I think we all knew what he meant and, this being a specialist forum, we benefit from using shorthand in speech that is a lossy representation of ideas to those not initiated.

I hate to have to create this conversation fork but I really wish people wouldn't make comments like this. They're so low signal.

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Re:How to support open-source software and stay sane by chrisseaton on Monday July 01, 2019 @03:17PM (#20328764)
I disagree - I think reducing anyone who doesn’t happen to program to being ‘non-technical’, with the implication that they don't know what they're talking about, is insidious.
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Re:How to support open-source software and stay sane by scarejunba on Monday July 01, 2019 @03:35PM (#20328919)
It's clear he means "Scientists who don't want too much input into the engineering decisions". You're reading an implication of competency where there is none.
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