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Should a question about a bug in software be answered or closed when the bug is fixed?

Yes, the question should be answered A bug being fixed is an excellent candidate for an answer to a question. It neatly encapsulates that: there was a problem, the developers confirmed it, they fixed ...
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Is the subject of software licensing now off-subject?

Uhm. Yes This isn't even a end user question, its a developer question. Everything else aside, this is pretty much programming and software development (SO would close it for other reasons. And its ...
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Is the subject of software licensing now off-subject?

Being able to answer a specific question from a specific software licence is different from "compare two (potentially) completely different things and tell me what I should do". What they ...
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1 vote
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Removing clutter in unclear questions with many clarifying comments

Users who edit their posts should integrate the new information rather than chopping the post up into sections based on the sequence of edits. We have the revision history if we need to look back and ...
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Removing clutter in unclear questions with many clarifying comments

The process is to go ahead and do so. There is no need for "Edit" and "Update" headings all over the question. Remove those and rewrite as necessary the rest of the sentences to form a coherent whole.
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