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Re:Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate by nzmsv on Monday May 17, 2021 @01:02PM (#27185638)
Not sure why this is downvoted. An exUSSR license was very common in shareware whose authors were themselves from the region. WinRAR and FAR are examples, but there are certainly more.
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Re:Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate by wildmanx on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @02:26AM (#27191786)
Maybe because it claims "they are unrelated" and then spends some time describing the relation? That is, between cracking shareware and its language filter to avoid said cracking.
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Re:Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate by nzmsv on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @10:17AM (#27208957)
And I think what the comment meant was: the special license was driven more by consideration of the fellow countryman's economic situation than by appeasement of crackers. In reality it was probably a bit of both.
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