You should never use the phrase 'you should'
From The Starfish an the spider, MGM’s mistake and the Apache Mystery:
The phrase ‘you should’ does not even exist in the Apache language. Coercion is a foreign language.
This applies very well to the Apache Software Foundation too, and not by chance. Via Ted Leung slides on Community Antipatterns.
On the humour side, ‘you should’ is a very favorite sentence in my family, and I’m famous for having being conditioned to resist it by heart year after year by jumping across discourse level and all other sort of "civil disobedience' tactics and tricks, so for me the quote above really stirs a chord. YMMV.
Note: title coming from a fortune cookie, attributed to Tim Veatch.
Short and confused post, in the spirit of twitter
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