The goal is to kill third party applications to look more appealing to investors when they IPO. No third party applications translates in an investor's mind to "all ip is under the company's control." Now. That's wrong. But they're the people writing the checks, and reddit's owners want big checks, and that's one way do it.

Almost right. The correct answer is, of course, "never." The police have no duty to protect citizens. The police have no duty to know the law. The police have no duty to enforce the law. Those are all *options* they have, but they are not, in fact, required to do any of them.

"I'm not interested in sentiment" says area man putting residents' fee-fees about*checks notes* an*address* as a higher priority than those people being able to *feed* themselves.

I love it when people say shit like this. It means that in six to twelve months, I'm going to be charging double my rate to fix the project those devs broke. You're gonna bring in devs with no experience or cultural connection to the management? How terrible, don't throw me in that briar patch, and let me update my pitch pipeline with your boss' contact info.

This comment is a thing of elegant simplicity, and I am stealing it to punctuate my shouting at idiots on this topic. Thank you.