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by knorker 3644 days ago
This name is awful. I would never want to contribute to it, nor use it. Nor suggest it to anyone as a solution to anything.

It's the worst name since that framework called "cocaine" with tools and subprojects named after illicit drug market terms.

Yeah, "felony" and "cocaine" are not things I will put on my CV or would like to show up when someone Googles my name.

What's the joke here? That some people are incorrectly labelled felons for what they say and write?

Do you know what most "felons" did to be called that? It's not for what they said and wrote that should be constitutionally protected.[1]

[1] I don't have numbers to back this up. Maybe most people are actually felons for drug possession, but you know what? I don't want to be associated publicly with those actions either. Also do you want to be on this table? https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/...

Violent crime,Murder,Rape, Robbery, Property crime, Burglary, Larceny-theft,Motor vehicle theft, Arson

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>Do you know what most "felons" did to be called that? It's not for what they said and wrote that should be constitutionally protected.

Exercised journalistic integrity and protected an anonymous sources?

http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title18/part...

The press is free, as long as it doesn't protect sources that have leaked embarrassing information about the armed forces.

Is that how most felons earned their felony conviction?

Because that's what I asked (rhetorically).