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>2. When he took down his repos without any warning, the serious people felt as though _why had breached some kind of un-written contract, and the parade folks felt like the children of divorcees: abandoned, and wondering if somehow it was their fault.

I think he knew that they were in git, so nothing would really be lost.

While this is mostly true, not everything of his was in git. I would give almost anything to have a copy of the source code for hackety.org, for example. I had to reverse-engineer the calls Hackety Hack was making to the site.

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