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0 pointskube-system4y ago0 comments

I understand that. The statement was intentionally an example of an outlier, not making a generalization as you accuse.

There is, in fact, at least one person in a dorm room writing FOSS. (I've been one, myself) And there's at least one person in an accounting office who does not write software. These are examples of two individual people who have different needs. This is not a generalization of any industry as a whole.

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monocasa4y ago· 2 in thread

Bringing up examples and then hiding behind 'well I didn't mean for them to be illustrative' is pretty lame.

kube-systemOP4y ago

I didn't ever mean anything else.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

monocasa4y ago

You haven't given a stronger plausible interpretation than spreading FUD. Your only defense so far is that it was a non-representative fact bordering on a non-sequitur.

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