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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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