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... "proprietary fork" and "might open-source"... let us know when you change your stand

Well Julien Verlaguet is the original author of SkipLang, so "proprietary fork" does not deserver the square quotes, IMO

Citation to indicate what he was responding to, not scare quotes.

> indicate what he was responding to

I've started doing that in exactly this fashion `>*quote*\n`, precisely to avoid the er, mention/disparage distinction.