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The most open letter ever
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This is the most open letter ever. Other authors claim their letters are "open" because you can all read them, but in reality, they are nothing but the rants of one person, which you might not even completely agree with, or will piss you off.
By contrast, this letter is truly open and gives you the freedom to fork and modify it. Pissed about Mike Arrington investing? Want to give Richard Stallman some personal advice to stop publicly mentioning conspiracy theories he may or may not believe in? The choice is yours. Simply fork this letter and post it on Hacker News and other places. Track its changes, and see what happens.
Anything you wanted to write about lately?
--- THE THREE LINES ---
This letter is licensed under the GNU Public License. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
You may fork it but you must include these three lines exactly as they appear at the bottom of the letter.
@kowsik
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kowsik commented May 3, 2011

Two things: GPL is b0rked, use something else, just in case I want to commercialize this and not give you credit. Secondly, I forgot what I was going to say. And thirdly (I can't count) please add line breaks and make sure it's readable in my 80-column vim.

Thanks,
@pcapr

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