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		tptacek on Nov 5, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft furious at $2,000 bounty for open source... My comment, or the comment I'm responding to? Preemptively: The fact that what I actually believe flies in the face of the conventional wisdom on Hacker News does not make it a trolling comment.

CamperBob on Nov 5, 2010 [–]

Microsoft's legal threat.

tptacek on Nov 5, 2010 | [–]

I think it was dumb of them to pick that fight, but that in the extreme they are invoking, it's not an idle or frivolous threat.

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