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Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by whimsicalism on Monday June 07, 2021 @01:38PM (#27425485)
which is hilarious given that the CEO of repl.it is literally building something similar to a product that he worked on at codeacademy
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Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by tyingq on Monday June 07, 2021 @02:19PM (#27426081)
This is the absolute best part of this. Re-read his snarky language now knowing this and it's just...funny.
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Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by mmastrac on Monday June 07, 2021 @02:26PM (#27426180)
It's very easy to justify doing something to benefit yourself while writing it off as justified, and getting massively offended when someone does the same thing to your perceived detriment.
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Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by heavyset_go on Monday June 07, 2021 @01:46PM (#27425611)
The irony here is delicious.
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Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by ignoramous on Monday June 07, 2021 @02:52PM (#27426539)
Replit's to be a new-age cloud company (ala fly.io) rather than Lynda.com for code. At least, thats what I gather from its founder's posts on Twitter.
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