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Re:Add Amazon root certificates by madez on Monday June 08, 2015 @12:52PM (#9680353)
A typo in the introduction:

    "We do not require customers that customers have a domain registration (...)"
There is a "customers" too much.
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Re:Add Amazon root certificates by amyjess on Monday June 08, 2015 @12:55PM (#9680380)
And I can see exactly how they got to that mistake...

The writer was waffling between "We do not require customers to have a domain registration" and "We do not require that customers have a domain registration", and they forgot to remove the entirety of the old wording when replacing it with the new.

I've made this mistake myself several times, and it jumps out at me whenever I see it.

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Re:Add Amazon root certificates by provost on Monday June 08, 2015 @12:57PM (#9680402)
Very fitting. 'Customer Obsession' is Amazon's first leadership principle [1].

[1] http://www.amazon.jobs/principles

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Re:Add Amazon root certificates by jshb on Monday June 08, 2015 @01:07PM (#9680488)
What's the problem? It seems totally fine to me, but I'm no English native.
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Re:Add Amazon root certificates by dtparr on Monday June 08, 2015 @01:25PM (#9680616)
As he says, there's an extra 'customers'. It should have been either

"We do not require that customers have a domain registration (...)"

or

"We do not require customers to have a domain registration (...)"

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