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by bjourne 4356 days ago
But now you are arguing the "it would be better if you did Y instead of X, so therefore stop doing X" fallacy. It's not like he is pillaging the original databases and leaves them burning. They are still there and his copying of data from them doesn't make them worse. You or anyone else are welcome to spend your free time exporting and merging the databases into Freebase.
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> But now you are arguing the "it would be better if you did Y instead of X, so therefore stop doing X" fallacy.

That's not a fallacy, that's just good advice. If this Swedish dude wants praise, he should spend his time doing things which are genuinely good, not dubious and possibly net-negative in the long run.