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Re:Learn Shen by snogglethorpe on Friday November 02, 2012 @10:03PM (#4735660)
Supposedly the bizarro license is due to fear of forking and divergence, but ironically, it's just as likely to have the opposite effect:

If it's a great language, but the current implementation is toxic (as it seems to be), you'll get people writing their own implementations of it, which will inevitably differ, and the lack of a common base will make divergence even more likely. With forks, at least you usually have the option of porting changes between the forks with a smallish amount of effort; with separate implementations, this sort of thing becomes much harder.

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