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You build a hundred solid bridges and you get called John the Good Bridge Builder. But lest you once screw up your software licensing and people notice and it blows up, you'll end up as John the Software Screwer in the annals of history... until next week.

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It seems though, that in the world of software, you can unfuck a sheep.

What worries me, though, that people who should have known better commit such oopsie daisies more and more (across many projects, I don’t mean this one only), almost as if they are testing the waters to see what they can get away with.

> almost as if they are testing the waters to see what they can get away with.

I think if it's a pattern then it's no accident. Of course people will test things. Kids, dogs, it's all the same: if you can get away with something, why not do it?

Well it is kinda blasphemy to swear with evil proprietaryness in a loving FOSS community

And then we have WordPress, former champion of open source and GPL, with all their soap opera drama.

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