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alexey-salmin ◴[] No.41897153[source]
A genuine question to commenters asking to "put a grownup in charge of the thing" and saying that "Kahle shouldn't be running things": he built the thing, why exactly he can't run it the way he sees fit?
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et-al ◴[] No.41897298[source]
He is. But at the cost of the greater good.

Most of us care mainly about the Wayback Machine and archiving webpages; not borrowing books still under copyright and fighting publishers.

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1. carapace ◴[] No.41899791[source]
> the greater good

(Hot Fuzz reference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQzrR6nOkYg )