By making people lose hours and hours of life (combined) when they clicked on an EE link from Google that lied about the contents of the page. There's a reason why I blocked the site from the search results before I even heard of Jeff Atwood.
if you consider Mr Atwood's (or Mr Spolsky's, for that matter) characterizations as Gospel
No, I just agree with them on that.
Evil, in my view, is telling you that you're always going to get to use SO at no charge
Can you please point out to where they claimed that? If they did and they do start charging for normal use, I agree that it'll be wrong. But Tu quoque is a fallacy, you know?
By making people lose hours and hours of life (combined) when they clicked on an EE link from Google that lied about the contents of the page. There's a reason why I blocked the site from the search results before I even heard of Jeff Atwood.
if you consider Mr Atwood's (or Mr Spolsky's, for that matter) characterizations as Gospel
No, I just agree with them on that.
Evil, in my view, is telling you that you're always going to get to use SO at no charge
Can you please point out to where they claimed that? If they did and they do start charging for normal use, I agree that it'll be wrong. But Tu quoque is a fallacy, you know?