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Re:“We Are Morons” – A quick look at the Win2k source (2004) by mieseratte on Thursday February 08, 2018 @10:10AM (#16332480)
> even when the disclaimer "based on"

I can't exactly fault them as "based on" seems to be more of a marketing gimmick used to imply some form of authenticity rather than an actual disclaimer. For the longest time I fell for the fallacy that "based on" implied some semblance of factual accuracy.

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Re:“We Are Morons” – A quick look at the Win2k source (2004) by bringtheaction on Thursday February 08, 2018 @10:35AM (#16332730)
I used to think that based on basically meant the whole thing was true except they maybe changed some names and cut out the non-interesting parts.
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