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Re:When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop by sixstringtheory on Monday July 22, 2019 @04:51PM (#20502213)
Drilling and refining fossil fuels are BP's strengths, who cares about a little oil spilling into the environment?

Can you see how maybe other people might have valid concerns about the effects of a product, and ask for more rigor in the company's processes?

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Re:When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop by SkyMarshal on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @03:59AM (#20505181)
>Drilling and refining fossil fuels are BP's strengths, who cares about a little oil spilling into the environment?

That's perhaps the most tortured analogy I've ever heard. I can't even begin to fathom how you think that's comparable or relevant.

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Re:When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop by sixstringtheory on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @04:13AM (#20505224)
Ah, a popular strawman tactic these days: attack the analogy.

Sounds like it got my point across. You just don’t like the point.

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