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		papln on Oct 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Thank You, Guido The article doesn't say "only now". It says "He has already put into motion the conversion of the Dropbox server code from Python 2 to Python 3. " "already" refers to "sometime in the past 6 years".

azinman2 on Oct 30, 2019 [–]

Motion describes something that isn’t stopped, meaning not yet complete. This implies it’s more recent, or the conversion is more difficult than it should be.

Perhaps it’s already done, in which case this word choice is poor.

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