Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project

Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by samatman on Monday June 07, 2021 @01:22PM (#27425257)

Yeah, holding a VC fund and accelerator responsible for every tantrum thrown by one of their proteges is worth a downvote.

This kind of catastrophizing doesn't contribute. For one thing, you jumped from "this kind of person" to "these kind of people", without supporting evidence.

Do you have a process which can identify, in advance, everyone who is going to be an asshole to a former intern? While picking enough winners to make bank? Please share!

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Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by KingOfCoders on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @01:37AM (#27430978)

'"this kind of person" to "these kind of people"'

Oh, if I had two wishes from a genie, first would be world peace, second would be being a native English speaker.

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Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by lasfter on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @02:18AM (#27431205)

Just want to point out, since I'm assuming you aren't a native English speaker, it should technically be "these kinds of people".

"these kind of people" is ungrammatical ("kind" is singular, "these" and "people" are plural).

Maybe in this case English isn't as hard as you thought. :)

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Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by havocsupreme on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @02:55AM (#27431391)

Kind people like you who take time to help strangers are awesome!

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Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by KingOfCoders on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @03:59AM (#27431747)

I agree!

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Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by KingOfCoders on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @02:43AM (#27431324)

Thanks!

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Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by CRConrad on Monday June 07, 2021 @05:38PM (#27427366)

> For one thing, you jumped from "this kind of person" to "these kind of people", without supporting evidence.

Not much of a jump: "kind" at the very least strongly implies the plural already. If you mean just one person, you say "this person", whereas "this kind of person" means "this person and others like him". AFAICS "this kind of person" and "these kind of people" are pretty much synonyms; the only difference between them is that the former is grammatically correct.

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