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Sat Apr 19 00:21:07 CEST 2014 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-April/134158.html

On 18 April 2014 18:16, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Nick Coghlan wrote:
>>
>> there are actually now *two* main ways of consuming
>> Python:
>
>
> Really? We'd better do something about that. We don't want
> anyone consuming Python -- we want some left over for the
> rest of us!
>
> (I'm making a serious point -- it's annoying when people use
> the word "consume" as though it were a synonym for "use".
> It's not.)

I don't consider "use" a synonym for "consume" in this case, as
consuming an upstream project covers redistribution as well. Now, I
could write "use or redistribute" everywhere, but "consume" is
shorter.

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia

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