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thepete2
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Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B
They certainly have bought a lot of very useful "user-generated data", would be a shame if they restricted access to it now or in the future.
robjan
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The user generated content is under a fairly liberal license so if they restricted access someone could just create a mirror.
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Not that they give a shit, they retroactively relicensed all submitted content and all previous data dumps, without rights to do that, and all they suffered was downvotes on their announcement.
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333089/stack-exchan...
thepete2
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in that case I've jumped to conclusions, that's great
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