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Re:Linus Torvalds: Successful projects are 99% perspiration ... by jonathanyc on Thursday February 16, 2017 @12:47PM (#13661950)
That's a false dichotomy, but also, this is a well-known phenomenon. It was taught even when I learned history in high school here in California.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2013-02-01/piracy-an...

http://foreignpolicy.com/2012/12/06/we-were-pirates-too/

I think it's a really interesting phenomenon how quickly we as a culture are able to imagine that what we're experiencing right now is without precedent.

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Re:Linus Torvalds: Successful projects are 99% perspiration ... by nickpsecurity on Thursday February 16, 2017 @01:40PM (#13662369)
It's not a false dichotomy. It's what the Chinese did to American goods until they developed innovation centers. The other person said America was the same. I wanted references. Yours seem to illustrate that was true. Hilariously, too.
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