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The term fauxpen has been around at least a few months.
LXer Linux News 2009
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I wanted to stress to her that part of my issues deal with years of baggage over Groundwork (when they started out they represented the worst in fauxpen source) and in part my jealousy that they managed to get and run through tens of millions of dollars in investment (what magic I could work with just a fraction of that money).
Adventures in Open Source tarus 2010
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Heh, I really don't listen to marketing people at all, but I would have to agree that the fauxpen source crowd often abuses the idea of community as much as the term "open source".
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Heh, I really don't listen to marketing people at all, but I would have to agree that the fauxpen source crowd often abuses the idea of community as much as the term "open source".
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I fear that some APIs -- especially ones that lock us into dependency on commercial intermediaries that may fail -- are also a breed of fauxpen.
LXer Linux News 2009
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