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I voted the grandparent up about the license allowing it. But things being allowed isn't a benchmark for them being decent.

I don't think we should stone adulterers. But I also think cheating on your partner can mean you're an asshole.

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> Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.

-- Edward Thurlow

A fair point. But having the internet turn on you before you get any traction is also probably going to be a death-knell for an early stage company. It doesn't bode well for their ability to make or raise money.

Which again is not a problem for Amazon.

I can't think of a more effective way to entrench a oligopoly: small companies get screwed because if they use open source the way the big girls do they get cancelled, and they can't get big because they can't use open source the way the big girls do.

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