shakingmyhead

It’s not your work unless it’s identical is not how existing copyright law works so not sure why it would be how these things should be treated. Not to mention that moving around copies of the dataset itself is itself making copies that ARE identical…

I think his principled stance that his contributions to an open source project have to include holocaust jokes is not very compelling or principled.

I suspect he doesn't want to face the fact that it was maybe a bad idea in the first place. It's hard to own up to mistakes. I've been there.

It's where you claimed you couldn't remove it because then people would make more demands of you. That's the gutless part. Hiding behind a hypothetical. Glad I could clear it up. Also this is my first hacker news account not a throwaway.

except you aren't being asked to remove everything that offends anyone, you are specifically being asked to remove this one instance of holocaust imagery. You are hiding behind a slippery slope fallacy to avoid doing this. You can remove the image then immediately go back to your policy of not removing things. see how easy that was? And as for people complaining about archive.org, can't you just ignore them like you are ignoring this? Your logic doesn't hold up. You either don't want to admit you were wrong or you just don't want to remove the image period. That's your decision but you should have the guts to stand behind it.