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CBarkleyU on July 15, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: “Our paying customers need X, when will you fix it...

Is this some kind of next level sarcarsm that I'm not getting? The "other side" literally implied that the developers response better not have been a "thinly veiled extortion attempt". Not really sure how a developer of an open source project can extort IBM, but yknow...

wg0 on July 15, 2023 [–]

No it is not sarcasm. It is a possible outcome of an interaction where the commercial entity needlessly accuses of extortion and such. Might happen.

CBarkleyU on July 15, 2023 | [–]

Still not sure what you mean by "might happen". It literally did happen, check out the second screenshot.

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