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Re:Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract by chiefalchemist on Saturday February 05, 2022 @12:01PM (#30223076)
Communications have context. To apply a word to Adobe (as a loose refernce to "Don't be evil.") and then say ISIS is evil, doesn't mean or even imply Adobe === ISIS.

Context, it matters.

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Re:Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract by bradleyjg on Saturday February 05, 2022 @12:02PM (#30223099)
Let’s do literally evil next. That adjective doesn’t get nearly enough use.
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Re:Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract by chiefalchemist on Saturday February 05, 2022 @12:34PM (#30223462)
Well, blame Google. Knowing about historic references to Axis of Evil and such they should have left the word out of SV / start up lexicon.

As it is, they didn't. The best the rest of us can do is further develop our capacity for context.

https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Axis_of_evil

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