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Re:GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the ... by PopeOfNope on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @02:44AM (#9966740)
So this entire thread has been a lesson in the pointlessness of pedanticism.
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Re:GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the ... by konradb on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @12:16PM (#9969639)
Perhaps 'pedantry' would be more idiomatic? :)
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Re:GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the ... by PopeOfNope on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @12:36PM (#9969783)
Hah, I see what you did there. ;)
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Re:GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the ... by ectoplasm on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @03:27AM (#9966857)
It's pedantic, yes, but on the other hand, I think it's important to distinguish between legal and illegal activity, regardless of one's opinions about the moral goodness of the activity itself.
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Re:GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the ... by PopeOfNope on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @08:25AM (#9968109)
That's a mighty nice straw man you built for yourself, there. I see you dressed him in pants and everything.
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