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I think both sentences are ugly, but I think that's because "breaking functionality" offsets the simpler words in the idea. "They fuck up their shit just because they can", however, is smoother and faster than either of them. Swears have a certain poetry to them in writing, kind of like how oohs and aahs work in music. (This is my own opinion, mind you.) On their own they convey nothing, but placed neatly into a sentence they help the whole message flow.

So I think I'm agreeing with you here.



Except "fuck up their shit" doesn't say what they actually do. It contains less information than "break functionality."


"Break functionality" has already been conveyed. Repeating it is unnecessary and awkward.


At that point in the essay, he had quoted the license, but that sentence is the only time he states what's wrong with it. It's not repetition.




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