pedantry

Once a conversation reaches the point of pedantry it's generally a good idea to just stop.

Edit: 26 years -> the entire time social media has existed, to please the pedantry.

You don't actually get to drag in small pieces of pedantry like that in isolation.

But rather than clogging up huge numbers of comment threads with completely pointless pedantry why don't you just read the actual article?

For pedantry's sake: Falcon 9 blew itself up once an anomaly was detected.

In real life this level of attention to detail (pedantry) is present _only_ in military, aviation and space (even medical is not that crazy).

Regardless of pedantry, a GPL OS does not raise the same kinds of issues for a typical corporation that a GPL library or application does.

This is pedantry, but 1 billion isn't all that conservative.

It would effectively reduce the discussion to definitional pedantry.

More seriously, responding to hyperbole with pedantry isn't productive.

Christ, the pedantry in the comments section...

Down the rabbit hole of pedantry: we don't need a distribution, just a measure, if we want to talk about how many reals it accepts.

That's combined with pedantry about the term "socialism", which has confused some readers of the comment.

Pedantry about "MS" being different than the "software" aside - Microsoft consists of a specific sub-sampling of those people.

"People don't want a drill they want a hole in the wall." Sorry for pedantry, but think it helps with the metaphor.

Pedantry aside, the important thing above is language in the article itself that is representative of what it says.