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Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 18:43:49 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: notmm is dead!
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Prasad, Ramit=E6=96=BC 2012=E5=B9=B410=E6=9C=886=E6=97=A5=E6=98=9F=E6=9C=9F=
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> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
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> > Subject: Re: notmm is dead!
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> > On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:10:46 -0400, Etienne Robillard wrote:
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> > > Dear list,
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> > > Due to lack of energy and resources i'm really sad to announce the
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> > > removal of notmm from pypi and bitbucket.
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> > Well that's just rude. Even if you don't intend to maintain the softwar=
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> > If you are going to abandon the project, release it on PyPI with a dual
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> > If you were looking for sympathy here, starting off by removing your
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> > By the way, the latest version of notmm (0.4.4) has an empty licence
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I think it is OK to have some string attatched in those open source project=
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Nowadays the software industry is just like the perfume and prtinting=20
and the audio-video entaertainment   industry.

The replication cost is so  low. Don't forget the lawsuites in Facebook=20
about  the participants charged the founder in the courts.