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This thing with the founders is interesting (remind me to make my own license with "I take it all down with me if you destroy me" clause), but I want to know much more.

But who/what is the attack vector? Is it a coordinated attack and if so, what is the method and who are the backers? Are there other founders included in this trend? Granted, those three are pretty big but ...

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I'm not sure it matters... Even if it was completely uncoordinated or by accident, it's not good for the ecosystem.

I would disagree. If it were coordinated, it could possibly be exposed and countered.

If it were a coordinated attack then the chance of successfully countering it with a loosely knit community would have been be slim at best.

I think the loosely knit community in question has already lost.

that's a fair assessment, but it's also already happened, so, even if the outcomes are reversible, it's still a bad "leading indicator", as it were.

It's always either Marxist feminists or agent provocateurs for proprietary software. Or both.

I think I would want a few more data points before signing off on the first one, but perhaps not the second.

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