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		EGreg on Nov 2, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Trump’s new social media platform found using Mast... Reminds me of the dispute between Douglas Crockford (the inventor of JSON and writer of JSON2 parser) and the open source movement… The parser had a cheeky requirement that made it incompatible with various software licenses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3693108 Also the same Douglas Crockford on refusing to change JSONLint 2’s strictness: https://twitter.com/martinkl/status/43086204350119936?s=21

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