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Yup. If you, understanding your product, your users, and your licensing, write a post for your users not to worry, it means that you thought about your changes and came to a well informed position that there was reason for worry.


Well, you try to make it sound unlikely, but it's exactly like corporate messaging that there are no plans for layoffs in the wake of bad financial news.

The idea that a license change made to prevent competition and enable a business model centered around extracting monopoly rents from customers has no effect on customers is ludicrous. It's whole point is to have an adverse effect on customers.


The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy starts out with "Don't Worry". By the end of the sixth book in the trilogy find it was right to worry all along.


Or you might have a history of people being mad at you (for good reasons, like the story of security of the ELK stack). They know very well everybody will get mad again, so they precede all explanations by "don't worry".




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