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		catach 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I used to prefer permissive licenses and now favor... It would indeed be naive to make that claim, so it's a good thing that's not what I did.

happymellon 5 months ago [–]

> If the closed fork functionality is superior enough to make the original de facto obsolete then the users have already collectively decided that the tradeoff is worth it.

I'm afraid you did. Users are lazy, and IE and Java on Windows are great examples.

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