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Over the last 10 years, did people decide to interpret everything in the most cancel-able form? No sane person before would have read this sentence and thought
by mikymoothrowa 4y ago
Over the last 10 years, did people decide to interpret everything in the most cancel-able form?
No sane person before would have read this sentence and thought that the author was comparing licensing changes to murder
- jacobwg 4y agoNot really trying to cancel the author here, it's just an interesting comparison to make. It feels like either the author is trying to invoke the murder of villages during the Vietnam War as a way of lending weight to their argument about licensing changes, or they view the example of village destruction during the Vietnam War as something trivial enough to be in this post about licensing changes. Both of which feel odd. Whatever it is, it's the second sentence of the post and is literally written as a comparison to the license change statement from Lightbend, so it feels like the author intended it to be important.
- mikymoothrowa 4y agonot just you, I’ve been seeing this a lot lately. somebody references a well known phrase or an idiom and then somebody comments “Sure go ahead and compare this with that!” I’m not sure why you feel the author is trying to use vietnam to lend weight to his argument. He’s merely pointing to the absurdity of the sentence. And likening that absurdity to that of Lightbends post
- jacobwg 4y agoI can see that. For me, I’m not familiar with that phrase as an idiom, I’ve not encountered it before. It’s likely landing differently than for someone who experiences it as a common expression.
- PeterZaitsev 4y agoI am the author of this post. I think the statement what we support Open Source abandoning Open Source sounds very much like the other statement. I see both as ridiculous statements. This no way meant to state license change equals to murder
- shapefrog 4y agothe beatings will continue until morale improves