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Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks

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431 points dangle1 | 3 comments | 16 Oct 24 16:34 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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francisofascii ◴[16 Oct 24 19:22 UTC] No.41862815[source]▶
This story is analogous to a landowner and a group of neighborhood kids. The landowner allows the kids to play baseball in his field, but then the kids complain the grass is not cut, they are playing late into the evening, a few kids vandalize damage his flower bed, and his lawyers tell him he will be sued if he doesn't make all these safety changes, and so the landowner says screw it and puts up a fence.
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1. solidsnack9000 ◴[17 Oct 24 03:47 UTC] No.41866238[source]▶
Sort of. In this case, as other posters have mentioned, the "landlord" did some questionable things.
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2. francisofascii ◴[17 Oct 24 11:51 UTC] No.41868748[source]▶
Agreed. How about the "landlord" expected the kids to cut the grass and weed the gardens house for use of the field, and only allowed them access on certain days and times.
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3. account42 ◴[21 Oct 24 09:19 UTC] No.41902191[source]▶
More like the landlord wanted the kids to cut the grass for free so he gave them permission to look at the grass but not touch it and explicitly forbid playing on the grass. Oh and it turns out he doesn't even own all the land.