{"id":1917,"date":"2009-05-22T14:50:27","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T18:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2009-05-22T14:50:30","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T18:50:30","slug":"evil-is-as-evil-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/22\/evil-is-as-evil-does\/","title":{"rendered":"Evil Is as Evil Does"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mooseyard.com\/Jens\/?p=163\">Jens Alfke<\/a>, regarding the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.montgomerie.net\/whither-eucalyptus\">Eucalyptus rejection<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/mooseyard.com\/Jens\/?p=163\"><p>Maybe you think &ldquo;evil&rdquo; is too strong or melodramatic or exaggerated a word for this. Then feel free to substitute something that has fewer loaded connotations to you&mdash;&ldquo;unethical&rdquo; or &ldquo;anticompetitive&rdquo; or whatever. But if you&rsquo;re one of those who, like me, has applied the &ldquo;e&rdquo; word to the past actions of Microsoft, or to groups that try to ban books from libraries, then I think there&rsquo;s really no option but to use the same blunt language here and now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Secondly, Alfke makes a good point in the first comment that there can be a big difference between what users think is in the SDK and the reality of what&rsquo;s allowed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jens Alfke, regarding the Eucalyptus rejection: Maybe you think &ldquo;evil&rdquo; is too strong or melodramatic or exaggerated a word for this. Then feel free to substitute something that has fewer loaded connotations to you&mdash;&ldquo;unethical&rdquo; or &ldquo;anticompetitive&rdquo; or whatever. But if you&rsquo;re one of those who, like me, has applied the &ldquo;e&rdquo; word to the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}