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Re: Outdated and license-violating Java code snippets on Stack Overflow

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On Saturday, July 29, 2017 at 8:19:20 AM UTC-4, crag...@gmail.com wrote:
> We are not going to publish on Stack Overflow. We plan to release our
> findings to the Stack Overflow community (possibly as a technical report
> or similar kind of document). Any form of publication from this survey
> will be submitted to a software engineering journal or conference.

What are you hoping to find?  People have released the code they post on
Stack Overflow as a gesture of good faith and good will toward their
fellow human beings.  What type of legal lasso are you attempting to draw
these well-meaning, helpful human beings in to?

Are you hoping to figure out some new revenue model to charge people for
their contributions to Stack Overflow?  Are you looking to force people
to cite the fact that they received a 5-line snippet to address a specific
syntax need of something they haven't yet been taught by a book or through
a co-worker showing them?

What are you goals here?  "I hope my findings will raise awareness and
might potentially improve the quality of code in Stack Overflow answers
in the future" is rather vague under the colorization of "Outdated and
license-violating Java code snippets on Stack Overflow."

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In my best initial assessment of what you've provided my reply would be:

    You should be ashamed of yourself, PhD student Chaiyong
    Ragkhitwetsagul.  Kindly peek your eyes up out of those books
    and look around to your fellow human being and serve their needs
    first, and not the needs of monopoly-rights entities like copyright
    and patent holders, as these serve to strangle people rather than
    aid them at a ratio of about 500M:1.

    You should be helping the mass of people, and not niche entities'
    self-interests.

    Spend a little more time on the fundamental "philosophy" aspect
    of your PhD program.

Thank you,
Rick C. Hodgin

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Outdated and license-violating Java code snippets on Stack Overflow cragkhit@gmail.com - 2017-07-26 14:50 -0700
  Re: Outdated and license-violating Java code snippets on Stack Overflow j4n bur53 <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2017-07-27 16:20 +0200
    Re: Outdated and license-violating Java code snippets on Stack Overflow Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-27 08:10 -0700
      Re: Outdated and license-violating Java code snippets on Stack Overflow cragkhit@gmail.com - 2017-07-29 05:29 -0700
        Re: Outdated and license-violating Java code snippets on Stack Overflow "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2017-07-29 05:57 -0700
        Re: Outdated and license-violating Java code snippets on Stack Overflow Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-07-29 18:35 -0400
        Re: Outdated and license-violating Java code snippets on Stack Overflow Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-31 05:11 -0700
          Re: Outdated and license-violating Java code snippets on Stack Overflow Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-07-31 19:12 -0400
    Re: Outdated and license-violating Java code snippets on Stack Overflow Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-07-27 20:13 -0400
      Re: Outdated and license-violating Java code snippets on Stack Overflow cragkhit@gmail.com - 2017-07-29 05:31 -0700
    Re: Outdated and license-violating Java code snippets on Stack Overflow cragkhit@gmail.com - 2017-07-29 05:19 -0700
      Re: Outdated and license-violating Java code snippets on Stack Overflow "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2017-07-29 05:30 -0700

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