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by P_I_Staker 2678 days ago
I'm at a loss for what this will actually do in the long run. Seems like someone can just do an unofficial "pirate fork" or dump the code somewhere that doesn't track it's users. That would be a virtual certainty, if this ends up being an in demand thing.
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My guess is its to prevent a few of the non programmer journalists from viewing it and creating a drama storm.
Fair enough, I guess there's reasons, especially from a PR perspective. It just seems like a useless gesture to me.